GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA

SESSION 1995

S	1 

SENATE BILL 833

Short Title:  Amber Lights on Stopped Vehicles.	(Public)

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Sponsors: Senators Plyler, Hobbs, Odom, Perdue, Carpenter, Rand, Foxx, Hoyle, Soles, Carrington, Warren, Plexico, Ledbetter, Albertson, Gulley, Kerr, Conder, Sherron, Ballance, Lucas, Jordan, Parnell, Speed, and Blackmon.

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Referred to:  Transportation

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April 25, 1995

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT TO REQUIRE THAT VEHICLES MAKING FREQUENT STOPS ON HIGHWAYS BE EQUIPPED WITH FLASHING AMBER LIGHTS.
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
Section 1.  G.S. 20-134 reads as rewritten:
"§ 20-134. Lights on parked vehicles.
(a)	Whenever a vehicle is parked or stopped upon a highway, whether attended or unattended during the times mentioned in G.S. 20-129, there shall be displayed upon such vehicle one or more lamps projecting a white or amber light visible under normal atmospheric conditions from a distance of 500 feet to the front of such vehicle, and projecting a red light visible under like conditions from a distance of 500 feet to the rear, except that local authorities may provide by ordinance that no lights need be displayed upon any such vehicle when parked in accordance with local ordinances upon a highway where there is sufficient light to reveal any person within a distance of 200 feet upon such highway.
(b)	Vehicles while making frequent stops on highways, incident to deliveries, shall be equipped with flashing amber lights, whether attended or unattended, at all times.  These vehicles include  (i) motor vehicles operated by rural letter carriers of the United States Postal Service while performing duties as a rural letter carrier and (ii) motor vehicles operated by newspaper or other delivery persons while engaged in making deliveries of newspapers or other property."
Sec. 2.  This act becomes effective October 1, 1995.