**please Call**

[HOTSPOT]

If you are reading this, please call the Governor's Office right now and tell them your name, city, and that you are requesting the Governor support Bill 2167. It only takes 20 seconds or less.

We have to drive this home NOW!!!

The Governor's Office contact numbers are:
1-800-662-7952 (valid in North Carolina only)
(919) 733-4240
(919) 733-5811

[offshore]

Hey everyone!!
I know all of you are getting rundown from the boat towing issue in North Carolina but we really need to step up the phone calls to the Governors office. The Emails are great but talking to them is going to make the difference. This could theoretically go on for a while but we can’t give up. After all the hard work everyone across the state has done, the boaters of this state are so so close to getting a Boat Towing bill passed. If you trailer your boat or if you are thinking about getting a boat you will have to trailer this will affect you at some time. We can not let this chance slip away. Making a phone call takes less time then reading this post. Please tell everyone you know to call the Governors office and tell Mr. Easley to sign House Bill 2167 into law. Take the time to do this it is extremely important to all boaters that tow to their destinations in North Carolina……….Mark

The Governor's Office contact numbers are:
1-800-662-7952 (valid in North Carolina only)
(919) 733-4240
(919) 733-5811

[offshore]

880 HB 2167 TOWING OF RECREATIONAL BOATS/EXEMPTION.
Sponsor: WILLIAMS
R2 Ruled Mat'l\M11 Concur Outcome: PASSED

Time: Jul 16 2008 6:49PM

Total Votes: 110 Ayes: 105 Noes: 5 Not: 4 Exc. Absent: 6 Exc. Vote: 0

Ayes: Representative(s): Adams; Alexander, K.; Alexander, M.; Allen; Allred; Avila; Barnhart; Bell; Blackwood; Blust; Boylan; Braxton; Brisson; Brown; Brubaker; Bryant; Carney; Clary; Cleveland; Coates; Cole; Coleman; Cotham; Crawford; Current; Daughtridge; Dickson; Dockham; Dollar; Earle; England; Faison; Farmer-Butterfield; Folwell; Frye; Gibson; Gillespie; Glazier; Goforth; Goodwin; Grady; Gulley; Haire; Hall; Harrell, J.; Harrell, T.; Hill; Hilton; Holliman; Holloway; Howard; Hughes; Hurley; Jeffus; Johnson; Jones; Justice; Justus; Killian; Kiser; Langdon; Lewis; Love; Lucas; Martin; McAllister; McComas; McElraft; McGee; McLawhorn; Michaux; Mobley; Moore; Neumann; Owens; Parmon; Pate; Pierce; Rapp; Ray; Ross; Setzer; Spear; Stam; Starnes; Steen; Stiller; Sutton; Tarleton; Thomas; Tillis; Tolson; Tucker; Underhill; Walend; Walker; Warren, E.; Warren, R.; West; Wiley; Wilkins; Williams; Womble; Wray; Yongue

Noes: Representative(s): Bordsen; Fisher; Insko; Luebke; Weiss

Not Voting: Representative(s): Church; Daughtry; Hackney (SPEAKER); Saunders

Exc. Absence: Representative(s): Blue; Furr; Harrison; Holmes; Samuelson; Wainwright

[Sean Summers]

Got pulled over yesterday and made my call this morning. I have been burning up the email but now I will be burning up the phone lines as well. I have a Sea Pro 238CC with a single engine and with guides on my trailer I am over the limit. I don't consider myself to be amongst the big boys of boats yet I need a permit. This is ridiculous!!!

[Playin' Hooky]

Originally Posted by Sean Summers

Got pulled over yesterday and made my call this morning. I have been burning up the email but now I will be burning up the phone lines as well. I have a Sea Pro 238CC with a single engine and with guides on my trailer I am over the limit. I don't consider myself to be amongst the big boys of boats yet I need a permit. This is ridiculous!!!

Did you get a ticket? My guides put me over on my trailer also.

[offshore]

Sean,
Hate to hear you were stopped. Its important everyone burns up the phone lines to the governors office....Mark

[fishobx]

Hey guys,
What's up with this "TOWING" bill? Several members of the OBX ANGLERS CLUB
have asked me about this, and I have to admit, I know nothing about it. It sounds
important enough that all privately owned trailored boat owners need to be informed
of this issue. What's the possibility one you guys who can enlighten over 30 club
members with boats, can come to our next club meeting mon nite, 07/28, at 7m, at the Sea Ranch hotel and tell us how we can be a help.
Please call me to let me know if one of you can make it so we can introduce you
properly. best regards, we're all in the same boat, right.....
Stu Baldwin, pres day # 491-2436, nights: 453-9915....OR
E-mail : fishobxfa@yahoo.com

[offshore]

the main thing right now is to contact the governors office ASAP. HB2167 has been ratified and the governor has threatend to veto this bill. It will be a black eye on NC politics if it is vetoed by Easely. The House and Senate have overwhelmingly been behind the bill for Boat towing and ratified it.This bill has passed through committees and the floor with a total vote of 449 in favor and 21 in opposition !! The republicans democrats house and senate all agree this bill should be law. Mark

Here is the bill that was ratified:

GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA

SESSION 2007





HOUSE BILL 2167

RATIFIED BILL





AN ACT to INCREASE the width of boats that may be transported on highway routes during the day and night without a permit and to provide for an annual permit as opposed to a single trip permit for oversize boats.



The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:



SECTION 1. G.S. 20‑116 is amended by adding a new subsection to read:

"§ 20‑116. Size of vehicles and loads.

…

(m) Notwithstanding subsection (a) of this section, a boat or boat trailer with an outside width of less than 120 inches may be towed without a permit. The towing of a boat or boat trailer 102 inches to 114 inches in width may take place on any day of the week, including weekends and holidays, and may take place at night. The towing of a boat or boat trailer 114 inches to 120 inches in width may take place on any day of the week, including weekends and holidays from sun up to sun down. A boat or boat trailer in excess of 102 inches but less than 120 inches must be equipped with a minimum of two operable amber lamps on the widest point of the boat and the boat trailer such that the dimensions of the boat and the boat trailer are clearly marked and visible."

SECTION 2. G.S. 20‑119(g) reads as rewritten:

"§ 20‑119. Special permits for vehicles of excessive size or weight; fees.

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(g) The Department of Transportation shall issue annual overwidth permits for the following: vehicles

(1) A vehicle carrying agricultural equipment or machinery from the dealer to the farm or from the farm to the dealer that do does not exceed 14 feet in width. These permits shall be A permit issued under this subdivision is valid for unlimited movement without escorts on all State highways where the overwidth vehicles do vehicle does not exceed posted bridge and load limits.

(2) A boat or boat trailer whose outside width equals or exceeds 120 inches. A permit issued under this subdivision must restrict a vehicle's towing of the boat or boat trailer to daylight hours only."

SECTION 3. This act is effective when it becomes law.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified this the 17th day of July, 2008.

[Sean Summers]

No ticket but only because I was able to pull the guides and make it legal.