GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA

1993 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 291

SENATE BILL 117

 

AN ACT RELATING TO ILLEGALLY PARKED VEHICLES.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

 

Section 1.  The Board of Aldermen of the City of Winston-Salem and the City Council of the City of Greensboro may provide, by ordinance, for the use of wheel locks on illegally parked vehicles for which there are three or more outstanding, unpaid, and overdue parking tickets for a period of ninety days.  The ordinance shall provide for notice or warning to be affixed to the vehicle, immobilization, towing, impoundment, appeal hearing, an immobilization fee not to exceed fifty dollars ($50.00), and charges for towing and storage.  The Cities of Winston-Salem and Greensboro shall not be responsible for any damage to an immobilized illegally parked vehicle resulting from unauthorized attempts to free or move that vehicle.

Sec. 2.  This act applies to the Cities of Winston-Salem and Greensboro only.

Sec. 3.  This act is effective upon ratification.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified this the 7th day of July, 1993.

 

 

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Dennis A. Wicker

President of the Senate

 

 

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Daniel Blue, Jr.

Speaker of the House of Representatives