2009 North Carolina Code
Chapter 136 - Transportation.
§ 136-89.216. Civil penalty for failure to pay open road toll.

§ 136‑89.216.  Civil penalty for failure to pay open road toll.

(a)        Penalty. – A person who receives one or more bills for unpaid open road tolls during the first or second six‑month period in a year and who has not paid the amount due on those bills within 30 days after the end of the six‑month period is subject to a civil penalty of twenty‑five dollars ($25.00). The period from January 1 through June 30 of a year is the first six‑month period in a year, and the period from July 1 through December 31 is the second six‑month period in a year. Only one penalty may be assessed for a six‑month period.

(b)        Payment. – The Authority must send a notice by first‑class mail to a person who is assessed a civil penalty under this section. A person who is assessed a civil penalty must pay the unpaid toll for which the civil penalty was imposed, the amount of any processing fee due, and the civil penalty within 30 days after receiving the notice.

(c)        Penalty Proceeds. – A civil penalty imposed under this section is payable to the Authority or, if collected when a vehicle registration is renewed, to the Division of Motor Vehicles of the Department of Transportation. The clear proceeds of a civil penalty imposed under this section must be credited to the Civil Penalty and Forfeiture Fund established in G.S. 115C‑457.1. The guidelines used by the Office of State Budget and Management to determine an agency's actual costs of collecting a civil penalty and the clear proceeds of the civil penalty apply to the determination of the clear proceeds of a civil penalty imposed under this section.  (2008‑225, s. 2.)