A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT to change the penalty for giving false or fictitious information in an application for a drivers LICENSE OR a special identification card.
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
SECTION 1.  G.S. 20‑30(5) reads as rewritten:
"(5)	To use a false or fictitious name or give a false or fictitious address in any application for a driver's license or learner's permit, or any renewal or duplicate thereof, or knowingly to make a false statement or knowingly conceal a material fact or otherwise commit a fraud in any such application, or for any person to procure, or knowingly permit or allow another to commit any of the foregoing acts. Any license or learner's permit procured as aforesaid shall be void from the issuance thereof, and any moneys paid therefor shall be forfeited to the State. Any person violating the provisions of this subdivision shall be guilty of a Class I felony."
SECTION 2.  G.S. 20‑30 is amended by adding a new subdivision to read:
"(10)	To possess, manufacture, produce, sell, offer for sale, transfer, or convey to another any document used to apply for a learners permit or a drivers license, knowing the document to be fictitious, altered, or counterfeit shall be guilty of a Class I felony."
SECTION 3.  G.S. 20‑37.8(c) reads as rewritten:
"(c)	A violation of this section shall constitute a Class I felony."
SECTION 4.  This act becomes effective December 1, 2007, and applies to offenses committed on or after that date.