A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT to exempt trailers used by farmers to transport livestock from vehicle registration and certificate of title requirements, including the fees associated with those requirements, when the trailers are used to transport livestock from farm to farm or from farm to market.
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
SECTION 1.  G.S. 20‑51(6) reads as rewritten:
"(6)	Any trailer or semitrailer attached to and drawn by a properly licensed motor vehicle when used by a farmer, his tenant, agent, or employee in transporting livestock, unginned cotton, peanuts, soybeans, corn, hay, tobacco, silage, cucumbers, potatoes, all vegetables, fruits, greenhouse and nursery plants and flowers, Christmas trees, fertilizers or chemicals purchased or owned by the farmer or tenant for personal use in implementing husbandry, irrigation pipes, loaders, or equipment owned by the farmer or tenant from place to place on the same farm, from one farm to another, from farm to gin, from farm to dryer, or from farm to market, and when not operated on a for‑hire basis. The term "transporting" as used herein shall include the actual hauling of said products and all unloaded travel in connection therewith."
SECTION 2.  This act becomes effective October 1, 2012.