A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT to exempt property owners, property lessees, and members of the property owner's and property lessee's family and permissive guests of the owner or lessee who are SIXTEEN years of age or older from the requirement of wearing a safety helmet and eye protection while operating an all‑terrain vehicle on property owned or leased by the rider.
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
SECTION 1.  G.S. 20‑171.22 reads as rewritten:
"§ 20‑171.22.  Exceptions.
(a)	The provisions of this Part do not apply to any owner, operator, lessor, or renter of a farm or ranch, or that person's employees or immediate family or household members, when operating an all‑terrain vehicle while engaged in farming operations.
(b)	The provisions of this Part do not apply to any person using an all‑terrain vehicle for hunting or trapping purposes if the person is otherwise lawfully engaged in those activities. 
(c)	The provisions of G.S. 20‑171.19(a) shall not apply to a person that is the owner or lessee or a permissive guest of the owner or lessee of the real property upon which the all‑terrain vehicle is being operated or to any member of the owner's or lessee's family that is 16 years of age or older if the all‑terrain vehicle is being operated on the real property owned or leased by the owner's or lessee's family member." 
SECTION 2.  This act is effective when it becomes law.