A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT to provide that stolen registration plates will be replaced by the Division of Motor vehicles without the payment of a fee.
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
SECTION 1.  G.S. 20‑68(a) reads as rewritten:
"(a)	In the event any registration card or registration plate is lost, mutilated, or becomes illegible, the owner or legal representative of the owner of the vehicle for which the same was issued, as shown by the records of the Division, shall immediately make application for and may obtain a duplicate or a substitute or a new registration under a new registration number, as determined to be most advisable by the Division, upon the applicant's furnishing under oath information satisfactory to the Division and payment of required fee. If a registration plate is stolen and the applicant furnishes sworn information about the theft that is satisfactory to the Division, the registration plate shall be replaced by the Division without a fee being paid."
SECTION 2.  This act is effective when it becomes law.