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2014 North Carolina General Statutes
Chapter 20 - Motor Vehicles.
Article 2 - Uniform Driver's License Act.
- § 20-5 - Title of Article.
- §§ 20-6 - Repealed by Session Laws 1973, c. 1330, s. 39.
- § 20-7 - Issuance and renewal of drivers licenses.
- §§ 20-7.01 - 01: Repealed by Session Laws 1979, c. 667, s. 43.
- § 20-7.1 - 1. Notice of change of address or name.
- §§ 20-7.2 - 2. Repealed by Session Laws 1987, c. 581, s. 2.
- § 20-7.3 - 3. Availability of organ, eye, and tissue donor cards at motor vehicle offices.
- § 20-7.4 - 4. License to Give Trust Fund established.
- § 20-7.5 - 5. License to Give Trust Fund Commission established.
- § 20-7.6 - 6. Powers and duties of the License to Give Trust Fund Commission.
- § 20-8 - Persons exempt from license.
- § 20-9 - What persons shall not be licensed.
- § 20-9.1 - 1. Physicians and psychologists providing medical information on drivers with physical and mental disabilities.
- § 20-9.2 - 2. Selective service system registration requirements.
- § 20-9.3 - 3. Notification of requirements for sex offender registration.
- § 20-10 - Age limits for drivers of public passenger-carrying vehicles.
- § 20-10.1 - 1. Mopeds.
- § 20-11 - Issuance of limited learner's permit and provisional drivers license to person who is less than 18 years old.
- §§ 20-11.1 - 1. Repealed by Session Laws 1965, c. 410, s. 4.
- §§ 20-12 - Repealed by Session Laws 1997-16, s. 6.
- § 20-12.1 - 1. Impaired supervision or instruction.
- § 20-13 - Suspension of license of provisional licensee.
- §§ 20-13.1 - 1. Repealed by Session Laws 1979, c. 555, s. 2.
- § 20-13.2 - 2. Grounds for revoking provisional license.
- § 20-13.3 - 3. Immediate civil license revocation for provisional licensees charged with certain offenses.
- § 20-14 - Duplicate licenses.
- § 20-15 - Authority of Division to cancel license or endorsement.
- § 20-15.1 - 1. Revocations when licensing privileges forfeited.
- § 20-16 - Authority of Division to suspend license.
- § 20-16.01 - 01. Double penalties for offenses committed while operating a commercial motor vehicle.
- § 20-16.1 - 1. Mandatory suspension of driver's license upon conviction of excessive speeding; limited driving permits for first offenders.
- § 20-16.2 - 2. Implied consent to chemical analysis; mandatory revocation of license in event of refusal; right of driver to request analysis.
- § 20-16.3 - 3. Alcohol screening tests required of certain drivers; approval of test devices and manner of use by Department of Health and Human Services; use of test results or refusal.
- § 20-16.3A - 3A. Checking stations and roadblocks.
- §§ 20-16.4 - 4: Repealed by Session Laws 1989, c. 691, s. 4.
- § 20-16.5 - 5. Immediate civil license revocation for certain persons charged with implied-consent offenses.
- § 20-17 - Mandatory revocation of license by Division.
- § 20-17.1 - 1. Revocation of license of mental incompetents, alcoholics and habitual users of narcotic drugs.
- §§ 20-17.2 - 2: Repealed by Session Laws 2006-253, s. 25, effective December 1, 2006, and applicable to offenses committed on or after that date.
- § 20-17.3 - 3. Revocation for underage purchasers of alcohol.
- § 20-17.4 - 4. Disqualification to drive a commercial motor vehicle.
- § 20-17.5 - 5. Effect of disqualification.
- § 20-17.6 - 6. Restoration of a license after a conviction of driving while impaired or driving while less than 21 years old after consuming alcohol or drugs.
- § 20-17.7 - 7. Commercial motor vehicle out-of-service fines authorized.
- § 20-17.8 - 8. Restoration of a license after certain driving while impaired convictions; ignition interlock.
- § 20-17.8A - 8A. Tampering with ignition interlock systems.
- § 20-17.9 - 9. Revocation of commercial drivers license with a P or S endorsement upon conviction of certain offenses.
- § 20-18 - Conviction of offenses described in 20-181 not ground for suspension or revocation.
- § 20-19 - Period of suspension or revocation; conditions of restoration.
- §§ 20-20 - Repealed by Session Laws 1981, c. 938, s. 5.
- § 20-20.1 - 1. Limited driving privilege for certain revocations.
- § 20-20.2 - 2. Processing fee for limited driving privilege.
- § 20-21 - No operation under foreign license during suspension or revocation in this State.
- § 20-22 - Suspending privileges of nonresidents and reporting convictions.
- § 20-23 - Revoking resident's license upon conviction in another state.
- § 20-23.1 - 1. Suspending or revoking operating privilege of person not holding license.
- § 20-23.2 - 2. Suspension of license for conviction of offense involving impaired driving in federal court.
- § 20-24 - When court or child support enforcement agency to forward license to Division and report convictions, child support delinquencies, and prayers for judgment continued.
- § 20-24.1 - 1. Revocation for failure to appear or pay fine, penalty or costs for motor vehicle offenses.
- § 20-24.2 - 2. Court to report failure to appear or pay fine, penalty or costs.
- § 20-25 - Right of appeal to court.
- § 20-26 - Records; copies furnished; charge.
- § 20-27 - Availability of records.
- § 20-27.1 - 1. Unlawful for sex offender to drive commercial passenger vehicle or school bus without appropriate commercial license or while disqualified.
- § 20-28 - Unlawful to drive while license revoked, after notification, or while disqualified.
- § 20-28.1 - 1. Conviction of moving offense committed while driving during period of suspension or revocation of license.
- § 20-28.2 - 2. Forfeiture of motor vehicle for impaired driving after impaired driving license revocation; forfeiture for felony speeding to elude arrest.
- § 20-28.3 - 3. Seizure, impoundment, forfeiture of motor vehicles for offenses involving impaired driving while license revoked or without license and insurance, and for felony speeding to elude arrest.
- § 20-28.4 - 4. Release of impounded motor vehicles by judge.
- § 20-28.5 - 5. Forfeiture of impounded motor vehicle or funds.
- §§ 20-28.6 - 6: Repealed by Session Laws 1998-182, s. 6 effective December 1, 1998, and applicable to offenses committed, contracts entered, and motor vehicles seized on or after that date.
- § 20-28.7 - 7. Responsibility of Division of Motor Vehicles.
- § 20-28.8 - 8. Reports to the Division.
- § 20-28.9 - 9. Authority for the Department of Public Instruction to administer a statewide or regional towing, storage, and sales program for vehicles forfeited.
- § 20-29 - Surrender of license.
- § 20-29.1 - 1. Commissioner may require reexamination; issuance of limited or restricted licenses.
- § 20-30 - Violations of license, learner's permit, or special identification card provisions.
- § 20-31 - Making false affidavits perjury.
- § 20-32 - Unlawful to permit unlicensed minor to drive motor vehicle.
- §§ 20-33 - Repealed by Session Laws 1979, c. 667, s. 28.
- § 20-34 - Unlawful to permit violations of this Article.
- § 20-34.1 - 1. Violations for wrongful issuance of a drivers license or a special identification card.
- § 20-35 - Penalties for violating Article; defense to driving without a license.
- § 20-36 - Ten-year-old convictions not considered.
- § 20-37 - Limitations on issuance of licenses.
- § 20-37.01 - 01. Drivers License Technology Fund.
- § 20-37.02 - 02. Verification of drivers license information.
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