A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT TO REQUIRE the DIVISION of motor VEHICLES TO ALLOW THIRD‑PARTY COMMERCIAL DRIVERS LICENSE SKILLS TESTING ANY DAY OF THE WEEK and to extend the validity of a temporary driving certificate issued to an APPLICANT for a commercial drivers LICENSE to sixty days.
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
SECTION 1.  G.S. 20‑37.13 is amended by adding a new subsection to read:
"(b1)	The Division shall allow a third party to administer a skills test for driving a commercial motor vehicle pursuant to subsection (b) of this section any day of the week."
SECTION 2.  G.S. 20‑7(f)(5) reads as rewritten:
"(5)	License to be sent by mail. – The Division shall issue to the applicant a temporary driving certificate valid for 20 days, and 60 days for a commercial drivers license, unless the applicant is applying for renewal by mail under subdivision (4) of this subsection. The temporary driving certificate shall be valid for driving purposes only and shall not be valid for identification purposes. The Division shall produce the applicant's drivers license at a central location and send it to the applicant by first‑class mail at the residence address provided by the applicant, unless the applicant is ineligible for mail delivery by the United States Postal Service at the applicant's residence. If the United States Postal Service documents that it does not deliver to the residential address provided by the applicant, and the Division has verified the applicant's residential address by other means, the Division may mail the drivers license to the post office box provided by the applicant. Applicants whose only mailing address prior to July 1, 2008, was a post office box in this State may continue to receive their license at that post office box, provided the applicant's residential address has been verified by the Division."
SECTION 3.  This act becomes effective July 1, 2013.