(A) No person may operate a vehicle within the village unless the vehicle bears a license plate and the operator has a driver’s license, permitting said operator to drive the licensed vehicle.
(B) Pursuant to G.S. § 20-51(2), (8), and (9), the following shall be exempt from the requirement of registration and certificate of title:
(1) Any such vehicle which is driven or moved upon a highway only for the purpose of crossing such highway from one property to another;
(2) Any vehicle which is driven or moved upon a highway only for the purpose of crossing or traveling upon such highway from one side to the other, provided the owner or lessee of the vehicle owns the fee or a leasehold in all the land along both sides of the highway at the place of crossing; and
(3) Mo-peds, as defined in G.S. § 20-4.01(27), vehicles having two or three wheels and operable pedals and equipped with a motor which does not exceed 50 cubic centimeters piston displacement and cannot propel the vehicle at a speed greater than 20 mph on a level surface.
(Prior Code, Ch. 3 Art. IV) Penalty, see § 70.99