---
type: "Bill"
title: "City of Lowell / Regulate Utility Vehicles."
description: "City of Lowell / Regulate Utility Vehicles."
jurisdiction: "us/states/nc"
legislature: "North Carolina General Assembly"
session: "2013"
identifier: "HB 140"
citation: "North Carolina HB 140 (2013)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["COUNTIES", "LOCAL", "LOCAL GOVERNMENT", "MOTOR VEHICLES", "MUNICIPALITIES", "RATIFIED", "SESSION LAWS", "TRANSPORTATION", "GASTON COUNTY", "CHAPTERED", "UNREGULATED VEHICLES", "LOWELL"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: []
version_count: 4
action_count: 17
vote_count: 1
first_action: "2013-02-21"
last_action: "2013-06-20"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/8e5dff4e-a72e-426b-b366-73007f8efdf4"
source_url: "http://www.ncleg.net/gascripts/BillLookUp/BillLookUp.pl?Session=2013&BillID=H140&votesToView=all"
source_hash: "5a6dff89d345b56018d6b686dfd8624ec326933fb35c215c8b78e2c71f0df813"
vintage: "2026-07-01"
source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
confidence: "reported"
tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-nc"]
---

# North Carolina HB 140 (2013) — City of Lowell / Regulate Utility Vehicles.

## Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. **Filed** (filed) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2013/Bills/House/PDF/H140v0.pdf)
2. **Edition 1** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2013/Bills/House/PDF/H140v1.pdf)
3. **Ratified** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2013/Bills/House/PDF/H140v2.pdf)
4. **SL2013-172** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2013/Bills/House/PDF/H140v3.pdf)

## Votes

- Second Reading — **114–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Torbett — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.

- **2013-06-20** Ch. SL 2013-172 `became-law`
- **2013-06-20** Ratified
- **2013-06-19** Ordered Enrolled
- **2013-06-19** Passed 3rd Reading `passage, reading-3`
- **2013-06-19** Passed 2nd Reading `reading-2`
- **2013-06-18** Reptd Fav `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2013-03-12** Ref To Com On State and Local Government `referral-committee`
- **2013-03-12** Passed 1st Reading `reading-1`
- **2013-03-12** Rec From House
- **2013-03-11** Passed 3rd Reading `passage, reading-3`
- **2013-03-11** Passed 2nd Reading `reading-2`
- **2013-03-07** Placed On Cal For 03/11/2013
- **2013-03-07** Cal Pursuant Rule 36(b)
- **2013-03-07** Reptd Fav `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2013-02-25** Ref To Com On Government `referral-committee`
- **2013-02-25** Passed 1st Reading `reading-1`
- **2013-02-21** Filed `introduction`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/8e5dff4e-a72e-426b-b366-73007f8efdf4`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official North Carolina legislature records).