Legislation passed this fall allows for more remote license renewals, supports the study of futuristic license plates, exempts drivers and passengers in some open-air autocycles from helmet requirements, and makes it easier to buy an alcoholic beverage the day after your twenty-first birthday. House Bill 211, chaptered as S.L. 2019-227, makes a number of changes to the state’s motor vehicle laws, including changes in the four categories mentioned above. Remote License Renewals. No one likes to wait in line at DMV. A few years ago, the legislature made efforts to reduce those lines by permitting remote driver’s license renewal for eligible persons. Since June 2015, a North Carolina resident with a valid, unexpired Class C North Carolina driver’s license issued when the person was at least 18 years old has been eligible to renew his license online so long as his current license has no restrictions other than a restriction for corrective lenses and his most recent license renewal was in person. S.L. 2019-227 expands the remote renewal provisions to permit the holder of a valid full provisional license who is at least 18 years old to remotely convert that full provisional license into a regular driver’s license without personally appearing at DMV. This likely is welcome news to those newly minted adults, many of whom will have visited DMV three times in the previous three years: once to obtain a limited learner’s permit, a second time a year later to obtain a limited provisional license, and a third time--in as [...]
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