Friday, January 22, 2010

N.C. STATE LAWS

REGULATING THE USE OF
AUTOMOBILES
PUBLIC LAWS OF 1913

…"motor vehicles"… construed to mean all vehicles propelled by any power other than muscular power, except traction engines, road rollers, fire wagons, engines, police patrol wagons, ambulances, and such vehicles as run only upon rails or tracks. …

On each motor vehicle having a rating of twenty-five horse power, or less, a registration fee of five dollars. On each motor vehicle having a rating of more than twenty -five horsepower and not more than forty horse-power, a registration fee of seven dollars and fifty cents. … On each motorcycle, a registration fee of two dollars.

[Raleigh Times, August 29, 1916]
This article was published in The Connector, newsletter of the Tar River Connections Genealogical Society in the Winter 2005 issue.

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