North Carolina
North Carolina speeding law is more than 40 years old
The declare: A brand new North Carolina regulation says you can not go 5 miles per hour over the pace restrict
In a majority of states, it’s unlawful to exceed the pace restrict – no matter whether or not it’s protected for drivers to extend their pace. Nevertheless, a extensively shared Fb publish means that rule is new to North Carolina drivers.
The publish, which accrued greater than 4,000 shares in in the future, claims a regulation was handed April 10 to codify pace restrictions in North Carolina.
“Simply handed into regulation as we speak: You cannot go 5 miles over pace restrict in NC. You may be stopped for 1 mile over posted pace restrict!!,” reads the April 11 publish.
However no such regulation was enacted. Actually, the regulation the publish referenced has been on the books since 1979.
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USA TODAY reached out to the Fb person who shared the declare for remark.
North Carolina didn’t replace dashing regulation
North Carolina didn’t lately replace its dashing regulation, Christopher Knox, a public data officer for North Carolina’s Division of Public Security, advised USA TODAY.
“I can affirm that there has NOT been a change to North Carolina regulation almost about dashing statutes nor has there been any adjustments to our company’s enforcement of those legal guidelines,” Knox stated in an electronic mail. “The North Carolina State Freeway Patrol points citations or makes arrests just for particular, clear-cut and substantial violations of the regulation.”
The North Carolina Governor’s Freeway Security Program is operating a marketing campaign referred to as “Velocity a Little, Lose a Lot,” which a number of social media customers identified within the feedback on the publish.
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Nevertheless, that program just isn’t a brand new regulation. The state, which noticed 424 speeding-related deaths in 2021, runs this annual program to advertise protected driving.
North Carolina is an absolute pace restrict state
On July 18, 1979, North Carolina adopted a dashing regulation that’s nonetheless on the books as we speak.
“No particular person shall drive a car on a freeway or in a public vehicular space at a pace larger than is affordable and prudent below the situations then present,” the regulation reads.
If a driver goes over the pace restrict, the regulation says they might be given a ticket.
The regulation consists of set dashing limits for sure areas, resembling 35 mph inside municipal company limits, which embrace cities and cities. That sort of rule is called an absolute pace restrict.
No matter whether or not it’s protected, exceeding the pace restrict is illegitimate if a state has an absolute dashing regulation, based on the Uniform Car Code. This mannequin code is really helpful to states by the Nationwide Committee on Uniform Visitors Legal guidelines, a non-public nonprofit group.
Whereas most states comply with absolute dashing limits, some have presumed or prima facie dashing limits, based on a database created by Massachusetts Institute of Know-how software program engineer John Carr. That means drivers can argue that, although they had been exceeding the pace restrict, the pace was nonetheless protected. Some states have a mix of each sorts of pace limits.
Our score: Partly false
Based mostly on our analysis, we fee PARTLY FALSE the declare {that a} new North Carolina regulation says you can not go 5 mph over the pace restrict. North Carolina regulation does say drivers can’t drive over the pace restrict, however that’s not new. The regulation has been on the books since 1979.
Our fact-check sources:
- North Carolina Division of Transportation, accessed April 12, Velocity a Little, Lose A Lot
- North Carolina Division of Transportation, accessed April 12, Marketing campaign Knowledge
- Christopher Knox, April 13, E mail trade with USA TODAY
- Massachusetts Institute of Know-how, accessed April 12, State Visitors and Velocity Legal guidelines
- North Carolina Division of Justice, accessed April 12, Motor Autos; Failure to Lower Velocity
- Uniform Car Code, accessed April 12, Millenium Version
- North Carolina Normal Meeting, accessed April 12, Enacted Laws
- PolitiFact, April 14, Pump the brakes: no regulation stipulating that drivers can’t go 5 miles over restrict in North Carolina
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North Carolina
North Carolina government is incentivizing hospitals to relieve patients of medical debt
North Carolina state government is seeking to rid potentially billions in medical debt from low- and middle-income residents by offering a financial carrot for hospitals to take unpaid bills off the books and to implement policies supporting future patients.
Democratic Gov. Roy Cooper’s administration unveiled Monday a plan it wants federal Medicaid regulators to approve that would allow roughly 100 hospitals that recently began receiving enhanced federal Medicaid reimbursement funds to get even more money.
But to qualify an acute-care, rural or university-connected hospital would have to voluntarily do away with patients’ medical debt going back ten years on current Medicaid enrollees — and on non-enrollees who make below certain incomes or whose debt exceeds 5% of their annual income.
Going forward, these hospitals also would have to help low- and middle-income patients — for example, those in a family of four making no more than $93,600 — by providing deep discounts on medical bills incurred. The hospitals would have to enroll people automatically in charity care programs and agree not to sell their debt to collectors or tell credit reporting agencies about unpaid bills. Interest rates on medical debt also would be capped.
Cooper said the plan has the potential to help 2 million people in the state get rid of $4 billion in debt, much of which hospitals are never going to recoup anyway.
“Large medical bills from sickness or injury can cripple the finances of North Carolinians, particularly those who are already struggling,” Cooper said in a news release. “Freeing people from medical debt can be life-changing for families, as well as boost the overall economic health of North Carolina.”
Other state and local governments have tapped into federal American Rescue Plan funds to help purchase and cancel residents’ debt for pennies on the dollar. North Carolina’s proposed initiative would be different by creating a long-term solution to debt, state Health and Human Services Secretary Kody Kinsley said.
“We really wanted to create a more sustainable path forward and not just be one-and-done, but to keep it going,” Kinsley said in an interview.
North Carolina legislators last year created the enhanced Medicaid reimbursement payments for hospitals — called the Healthcare Access and Stabilization Program —alongside provisions that expanded Medicaid coverage in the state to working adults who couldn’t otherwise qualify for conventional Medicaid. More than 479,000 people already have enrolled for the expanded Medicaid offered since last December.
Cooper’s proposal doesn’t require a new state law and won’t cost the state any additional funds, but the U.S. Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services must approve the Healthcare Access and Stabilization Program changes. Kinsley said he believes regulators will be “aggressive in their approval.” Cooper’s administration wraps up at year’s end, since he’s barred by term limits from reelection.
To sweeten the deal, the financial possibilities for hospitals in the debt program that agree to debt alterations appear rich. The state Department of Health and Human Services said hospitals that choose to participate would be eligible to share funds from a pot of up to $6.5 billion for next year. Those who don’t can share from $3.2 billion.
The effort also will depend on the willingness of the state’s hospitals to participate. Kinsley said he didn’t know where the North Carolina Healthcare Association — which lobbies for non-profit and for-profit hospitals — stands on the effort, and that it wouldn’t participate in a public announcement later Monday.
And the debt relief wouldn’t begin right away, with consumers benefitting in 2025 and 2026, according to state DHHS.
Republican State Treasurer Dale Folwell has questioned the commitment of the state’s largest nonprofit hospital systems to treat patients who are poor at free or reduced rates. The N.C. Healthcare Association has pushed back at Folwell, promoting their members’ charity-care efforts and other contributions to communities they serve.
A group called Undue Medical Debt that’s assisted other governments with cancelling medical debt, also would work on North Carolina’s effort, DHHS said.
Monday, July 1, 2024 3:53AM
Miss Johnston County Carrie Everett took home the crown on Saturday during the Miss NC Competition
RALEIGH, N.C. (WTVD) — A new Miss North Carolina was crowned this weekend.
Miss Johnston County Carrie Everett took home the crown on Saturday during the Miss NC Competition.
Everett is the fourth Black woman to ever win the title and is a rising Sophomore at NC Central University.
According to North Carolina social media, Everett’s community service initiative is “Equity to build community”.
The Miss North Carolina Organization is a not-for-profit dedicated to empowering young women to achieve their personal, professional, and educational goals.
Everett will go on to compete in the Miss America pageant.
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