North Carolina HB 112: Consider Honey Sales as Income for Present-Use Value.

Bill Text

GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA
SESSION 2025
H 1
HOUSE BILL 112

Short Title: Increase Permissible Interstate Speed Limit. (Public)
Sponsors: Representatives Lowery, Biggs, and Chesser (Primary Sponsors).
For a complete list of sponsors, refer to the North Carolina General Assembly web site.
Referred to: Transportation, if favorable, State and Local Government, if favorable, Judiciary
1, if favorable, Rules, Calendar, and Operations of the House
February 13, 2025
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A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1
AN ACT TO INCREASE THE MAXIMUM PERMISSIBLE SPEED LIMIT ON INTERSTATE 2
HIGHWAYS AND TO MAKE VARIOUS CONFORMING CHANGES. 3
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts: 4
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PART I. INCREASE MAXIMUM PERMISSIBLE SPEED LIMIT ON INTERSTATE 6
HIGHWAYS 7
SECTION 1. G.S. 20-141(d) reads as rewritten: 8
"(d) (1) Whenever the Department of Transportation determines on the basis of an 9
engineering and traffic investigation that any speed allowed by subsection (b) 10
is greater than is reasonable and safe under the conditions found to exist upon 11
any part of a highway outside the corporate limits of a municipality or upon 12
any part of a highway designated as part of the Interstate Highway System or 13
any part of a controlled-access highway (either inside or outside the corporate 14
limits of a municipality), the Department of Transportation shall determine 15
and declare a reasonable and safe speed limit. 16
(2) Whenever the Department of Transportation determines on the basis of an 17
engineering and traffic investigation that a higher maximum speed than those 18
set forth in subsection (b) is reasonable and safe under the conditions found to 19
exist upon any part of a highway designated as part of the Interstate Highway 20
System or any part of a controlled-access highway (either inside or outside the 21
corporate limits of a municipality) the Department of Transportation shall 22
determine and declare a reasonable and safe speed limit. A speed limit set 23
pursuant to this subsection may not exceed 70 75 miles per hour. 24
Speed limits set pursuant to this subsection are not effective until appropriate signs giving 25
notice thereof are erected upon the parts of the highway affected." 26
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PART II. CONFORMING CHANGES 28
SECTION 2.(a) G.S. 20-141(j1) reads as rewritten: 29
"(j1) A person who drives a vehicle on a highway at a speed that is either is (i) more than 30
15 miles per hour more than the speed limit established by law for the highway where the offense 31
occurred or occurred, (ii) over 80 miles per hour where the maximum speed is up to 70 miles per 32
hour, or (iii) over 85 miles per hour where the maximum speed is 75 miles per hour is guilty of 33
a Class 3 misdemeanor." 34

General Assembly Of North Carolina Session 2025
Page 2 House Bill 112-First Edition
SECTION 2.(b) G.S. 20-16 reads as rewritten: 1
"§ 20-16. Authority of Division to suspend license. 2
(a) The Division shall have authority to suspend the license of any operator with or 3
without a preliminary hearing upon a showing by its records or other satisfactory evidence that 4
the licensee: 5
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(10a) Has been convicted of operating a motor vehicle at a speed in excess of 80 7
miles per hour on a public highway where the maximum speed is 70 miles per 8
hour; or 9
(10b) Has been convicted of operating a motor vehicle at a speed in excess of 85 10
miles per hour on a public highway where the maximum speed is 75 miles per 11
hour; or 12
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(c) The Division shall maintain a record of convictions of every person licensed or 14
required to be licensed under the provisions of this Article as an operator and shall enter therein 15
records of all convictions of such persons for any violation of the motor vehicle laws of this State 16
and shall assign to the record of such person, as of the date of commission of the offense, a 17
number of points for every such conviction in accordance with the following schedule of 18
convictions and points, except that points shall not be assessed for convictions resulting in 19
suspensions or revocations under other provisions of laws: Further, any points heretofore charged 20
for violation of the motor vehicle inspection laws shall not be considered by the Division of 21
Motor Vehicles as a basis for suspension or revocation of driver's license: 22
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In the discretion of the Division, a period of probation not to exceed one year may be 24
substituted for suspension or for any unexpired period of suspension under subsections (a)(1) 25
through (a)(10a) (a)(10b) of this section. Any violation of probation during the probation period 26
shall result in a suspension for the unexpired remainder of the suspension period. Any 27
accumulation of three or more points under this subsection during a period of probation shall 28
constitute a violation of the condition of probation. 29
(d) Upon suspending the license of any person as authorized in this section, the Division 30
shall immediately notify the licensee