AN ACT to exempt buses from safety inspections required under motor vehicle laws if they are titled to a local board of education and subject to school bus inspection requirements, as recommended by the joint legislative transportation oversight committee.

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

SECTION 1.  G.S. 20‑183.2(a1) reads as rewritten:
"(a1)	Safety Inspection Exceptions. – The following vehicles shall not be subject to a safety inspection pursuant to this Article:
(1)	Historic vehicles, as defined in G.S. 20‑79.4(b)(55).
(2)	Buses titled to a local board of education and subject to the school bus inspection requirements specified by the State Board of Education and G.S. 115C‑248(a)."
SECTION 2.  This act is effective when it becomes law.
In the General Assembly read three times and ratified this the 15th day of July, 2008.

	s/	 Beverly E. Perdue
	 President of the Senate

	s/	 Joe Hackney
	 Speaker of the House of Representatives

	s/	 Michael F. Easley
	 Governor

Approved 2:52 p.m. this 4th day of August, 2008