AN ACT to authorize rear high mounted flashing deceleration lamps on public transit vehicles.

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

SECTION 1.  G.S. 20‑130 is amended by adding a new subsection to read:
"(e)	High Mounted Flashing Deceleration Lamps. – Public transit vehicles may be equipped with amber, high mounted, flashing deceleration lamps on the rear of the vehicle."
SECTION 2.  This act becomes effective July 1, 2004.
In the General Assembly read three times and ratified this the 1st day of July, 2004.

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		 Beverly E. Perdue
	 President of the Senate

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		 James B. Black
	 Speaker of the House of Representatives

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		 Michael F. Easley
	 Governor

Approved __________.m. this ______________ day of ___________________, 2004