Definitions
General Statutes
Licenses & Permits
DWI
Miscellaneous
100
A person in actual physical control of a vehicle.
What is an operator?
100
Every vehicle registered or required to be required to be registered in NC shall maintain financial responsibility.
What is G.S. 20-313 ?
100
This is required to operate a commercial tractor-trailer truck with a GVWR of 27,000 lbs. and a trailer weighing 11,000 lbs.
What is a Class A CDL?
100
The amount of time an operators driving privilege is revoked after he/she if charged for DWI and refuses the chemical test.
What is 30 days plus 1 year ?
100
the number of license points assigned by DMV for Passing a stopped school bus.
What is 5 points ?
200
Every vehicle which is self propelled and every vehicle designed to run upon the highways which is pulled by a self propelled vehicle.
What is a motor vehicle?
200
Motor vehicle terms are listed and defined here. It may be the single most important section in the entire Motor Vehicle Laws.
What is G.S. 20-4.01?
200
The minimum age for the issuance of a drivers education permit.
What is 14 1/2 years?
200
This would be charged for a DWI offender if he/she has been convicted of three or more DWI's within a ten year date of this offence.
What is a felony or habitual impaired driving ?
200
The number of days the owner of a vehicle has to transfer the license plate from his old vehicle to his new one.
What is 20 days ?
300
A vehicle with two or three wheels, no external shifting device, and a motor which does not exceed 50 cc's that cannot propell itself at more than 30 mph on a level surface.
What is moped?
300
Speeding violations can be found under this statute.
What is G.S. 20-141?
300
Issued to licensed minors between the ages of 16 and 18 who have moved to North Carolina from another state and have not completed a North Carolina approved driver's education course.
What is a temporary driving permit?
300
A judge would consider these when sentencing an impaired driving conviction under G.S. 20-138.1.
What is aggravating or mitigating factors ?
300
This is the maximum width a vehicle can be in North Carolina.
What is 102 inches ?
400
The entire width between property or right of way lines of every way or place of whatever nature, when any part thereof is open to the use of the public as a matter of right for the purposes of vehicular traffic.
What is a highway or street?
400
vehicle registration laws can be found here.
What is G.S. 20-111
400
The minimum age at which a person can get a regular class A license.
What is 18?
400
This should be done to an offenders vehicle if he/she is charged wih DWI and his/her license if revoked for a prior DWI offence.
What is seize the vehicle ?
400
This would be the correct charge if a driver unintentionally kills a person while violating any state law or local ordinance concerning the operation of a vehicle, other than impaired driving, and the violation is the proximate cause of death.
What is Misdemeanor Death by Vehicle ?
500
The area embraced within the prolongation of the lateral curb lines of, if none, the lateral edge of roadway lines of two or more highways which join one another at any angle whether or not one such highway crosses the other.
What is an intersection ?
500
The offence of Impaired Driving can be found here.
What is G.S. 20-138.1
500
Issued in court by a judge (not DMV) to revoked drivers for certain DWI offenders and certain speeding offenses.
What is Limited Driving Privilage(LDP)?
500
This is a place where DWI can be charged other than a street or highway.
What is a PVA ?
500
The set dollar amount on when a traffic collision involving property damage only must be reported.
What is $1000.00 ?