GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA
SESSION 1999

HOUSE BILL 1263
RATIFIED BILL

AN ACT TO PROVIDE THAT A PERSON BETWEEN SIXTEEN AND EIGHTEEN YEARS OF AGE WITH A DRIVERS LICENSE ISSUED BY THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT MAY BE ISSUED THE PROPER DRIVERS PERMIT UNDER THE GRADUATED DRIVERS LICENSE PROGRAM.

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

Section 1. G.S. 20-11 is amended by adding a new subsection to read:
"( h3)	Exception for Persons Less Than Age 18  Who Have a Federally Issued Unrestricted or Restricted License. – A person who is less than age 18, who has an unrestricted or restricted drivers license issued by the federal government, and who becomes a resident of this State may obtain a limited provisional license or a provisional license if the person has completed a drivers education program substantially equivalent to the drivers education program that meets the requirements of the Superintendent of Public Instruction.  A person who qualifies for a limited provisional license or a provisional license under this subsection and whose parent or guardian certifies that the person has not been convicted of a moving violation in the preceding six months shall be deemed to have held a limited provisional license or a provisional license in this State for each month the person held an unrestricted or restricted license issued by the federal government."
Section 2.  This act is effective when it becomes law.
In the General Assembly read three times and ratified this the 30th day of June, 1999.

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	Dennis A. Wicker
	President of the Senate

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	James B. Black
	Speaker of the House of Representatives

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	James B. Hunt, Jr.
	Governor

Approved 	.m. this 	 day of 	, 19