NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1965 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 673

SENATE BILL 88

 

 

AN ACT TO REWRITE G.S. 20-175 TO PROHIBIT PERSONS FROM SOLICITING RIDES, EMPLOYMENT, BUSINESS OR FUNDS UPON PUBLIC HIGHWAYS OR STREETS.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

 

Section 1.  G.S. 20-175 is hereby rewritten to read as follows:

"§ 20-175.  Pedestrians Soliciting Rides, Employment, Business or Funds Upon Highways or Streets. (a) No person shall stand in any portion of the State highways, except upon the shoulders thereof, for the purpose of soliciting a ride from the driver of any motor vehicle.

(b)        No person shall stand or loiter in the main traveled portion, including the shoulders and median, of any State highway or street, excluding sidewalks, or stop any motor vehicle for the purpose of soliciting employment, business or contributions from the driver or occupant of any motor vehicle that impedes the normal movement of traffic on the public highways or streets: Provided that the provisions of this subsection shall not apply to licensees, employees or contractors of the State Highway Commission or of any municipality engaged in construction or maintenance or in making traffic or engineering surveys.

(c)        Any person violating the provisions of this Section shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction shall be fined not more than fifty dollars ($50.00) or imprisoned for not more than thirty (30) days."

Sec. 2.  All laws and clauses of laws in conflict with this Act are hereby repealed.

Sec. 3.  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 25th day of May, 1965.