NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1971 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 261

HOUSE BILL 410

 

 

AN ACT TO AMEND CHAPTER 44A.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

 

Section 1.  Chapter 44A of the General Statutes is amended by adding a new subsection to G.S. 44 A-2 as follows:

"(d)      Any person who repairs, services, tows, or stores motor vehicles in the ordinary course of his business pursuant to an express or implied contract with an owner or legal possessor of the motor vehicle has a lien upon the motor vehicle for reasonable charges for such repairs, servicing, towing, or storing. This lien shall have priority over perfected and unperfected security interests."

Sec. 2.  This act shall be in full force and effect upon and after ratification.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 29th day of April, 1971.