Bill Text: NC S655 | 2010 | Regular Session | Chaptered
Bill Title: Increase Drivers License Restoration Fee
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Passed) 2010-07-21 - Ch. SL 2010-130 [S655 Detail]
Download: North_Carolina-2010-S655-Chaptered.html
GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA
SESSION 2009
SESSION LAW 2010-130
SENATE BILL 655
AN ACT to increase the fee for the restoration OF DRIVERS licenses revoked for impaired driving to provide funding for the forensic tests for alcohol branch of the DEPARTMENT of health and HUMAN services.
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
SECTION 1. G.S. 20‑7(i1) reads as rewritten:
"(i1) Restoration Fee. –
Any person whose drivers license has been revoked pursuant to the provisions of
this Chapter, other than G.S. 20‑17(a)(2) shall pay a restoration
fee of fifty dollars ($50.00). A person whose drivers license has been revoked
under G.S. 20‑17(a)(2) shall pay a restoration fee of seventy‑five
dollars ($75.00).one hundred dollars ($100.00). The fee shall be
paid to the Division prior to the issuance to such person of a new drivers
license or the restoration of the drivers license. The restoration fee shall be
paid to the Division in addition to any and all fees which may be provided by
law. This restoration fee shall not be required from any licensee whose license
was revoked or voluntarily surrendered for medical or health reasons whether or
not a medical evaluation was conducted pursuant to this Chapter. The fifty‑dollar
($50.00) fee, and the first fifty dollars ($50.00) of the seventy‑five‑dollar
($75.00)one-hundred-dollar ($100.00) fee, shall be deposited in the
Highway Fund. The remaining twenty‑five dollars ($25.00) of the
seventy‑five‑dollar ($75.00) fee shall be deposited in the General
Fund of the State. Twenty‑five dollars ($25.00) of the one‑hundred‑dollar
($100.00) fee shall be used to fund a statewide chemical alcohol testing
program administered by the Forensic Tests for Alcohol Branch of the Chronic
Disease and Injury Section of the Department of Health and Human Services. The
remainder of the one‑hundred‑dollar ($100.00) fee shall be
deposited in the General Fund. The Office of State Budget and Management
shall annually report to the General Assembly the amount of fees deposited in
the General Fund and transferred to the Forensic Tests for Alcohol Branch of
the Chronic Disease and Injury Section of the Department of Health and Human
Services under this subsection.
It is the intent of the General Assembly to annually appropriate from the funds deposited in the General Fund under this subsection the sum of five hundred thirty‑seven thousand four hundred fifty‑five dollars ($537,455) to the Board of Governors of The University of North Carolina to be used for the operating expenses of the Bowles Center for Alcohol Studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill."
SECTION 2. This act becomes effective September 1, 2010.
In the General Assembly read three times and ratified this the 8th day of July, 2010.
s/ Walter H. Dalton
President of the Senate
s/ Joe Hackney
Speaker of the House of Representatives
s/ Beverly E. Perdue
Governor
Approved 5:07 p.m. this 21st day of July, 2010