NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY
1971 SESSION

CHAPTER 795
SENATE BILL 648

AN ACT TO ESTABLISH TRAFFIC REGULATIONS FOR ALL INSTITUTIONS WITHIN THE NORTH CAROLINA COMMUNITY COLLEGE SYSTEM.

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

Section 1.  All of the provisions of Chapter 20 of the General Statutes relating to the use of highways of the State of North Carolina and the operation of motor vehicles thereon are hereby made applicable to the streets, roads, alleys and driveways on the campuses of all institutions in the North Carolina Community College System. Any person violating any of the provisions of Chapter 20 of the General Statutes as herein made applicable, in or on the streets, roads, alleys and driveways on the campuses of institutions in the North Carolina Community College System shall, upon conviction thereof, be punished as therein prescribed and as provided by Chapter 20 of the General Statutes relating to motor vehicles. Nothing herein contained shall be construed as in any way interfering with the ownership and control of such streets, roads, alleys and driveways on the campuses of institutions in the System as is now vested by law in the trustees of each individual institution in the North Carolina Community College System.
Sec. 2.  The trustees are authorized and empowered to make additional rules and regulations and to adopt additional ordinances with respect to the use of the streets, roads, alleys and driveways and to establish parking areas on or off the campuses not inconsistent with the provisions of Chapter 20 of the General Statutes of North Carolina. Upon investigation, the trustees may determine and fix speed limits on streets, roads, alleys, and driveways subject to such rules, regulations, and ordinances, lower than those provided in G.S. 20-141. The trustees may make reasonable provisions for the towing or removal of unattended vehicles found to be in violation of rules, regulations and ordinances. All rules, regulations and ordinances adopted pursuant to the authority of this section shall be recorded in the proceedings of the trustees, printed, and copies of such rules, regulations and ordinances shall be filed in the Office of the Secretary of State of North Carolina. Any person violating any such rules, regulations, or ordinances shall, upon conviction thereof in a legally constituted court of the State of North Carolina, be guilty of a misdemeanor, and shall be punishable by a fine of not exceeding fifty dollars ($50.00) or imprisonment for not exceeding 30 days or, in the discretion of the Court, both such fine and imprisonment.
Sec. 3.  The trustees may by rules, regulations, or ordinances provide for a system of registration of all motor vehicles where the owner or operator does park on the campus or keeps said vehicle on the campus. The trustees shall cause to be posted at appropriate places on campus notice to the public of applicable parking and traffic rules, regulations, and ordinances governing the campus over which it has jurisdiction. The trustees may by rules, regulations, or ordinances establish or cause to have established a system of citations that may be issued to owners or operators of motor vehicles who violate established rules, regulations, or ordinances. The trustees shall provide for the administration of said system of citations; establish or cause to be established a system of fines to be levied for the violation of established rules, regulations and ordinances; and enforce or cause to be enforced the collection of said fines. The fine for each offense shall not exceed five dollars ($5.00), which funds shall be retained in the institution and expended in the discretion of the trustees. The trustees shall be empowered to exercise the right to prohibit repeated violators of such rules, regulations, or ordinances from parking on the campus.
Sec. 4.  All laws and clauses of laws in conflict with the provisions of this act are hereby repealed.
Sec. 5.  This act shall be in full force and effect from and after its ratification.
In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 8th day of July, 1971.