NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1959 SESSION

CHAPTER 226

HOUSE BILL 261

AN ACT TO AUTHORIZE THE COUNTY COMMISSIONERS OF PERSON COUNTY TO ESTABLISH AND OPERATE PARKING METERS ON COUNTY-OWNED PROPERTY AT THE PERSON COUNTY COURTHOUSE IN ROXBORO.

The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

Section 1. The County Commissioners of Person County are hereby authorized and empowered:

(a)       To acquire, install and maintain parking meters and parking facilities on the county-owned land adjacent to the county courthouse building;

(b)       To adopt such regulations and impose such charges in connection with any parking meters installed or hereafter installed on such land as it may deem advisable;

(c)       To adopt and publish such rules and regulations with respect to such parking area and the parking meters thereon as in its opinion may be necessary. Any person violating such rules and regulations adopted by the board of county commissioners shall, upon conviction thereof, be guilty of a misdemeanor and shall be punishable by a fine not exceeding fifty dollars ($50.00) or imprisonment not exceeding thirty (30) days. It shall be the duty of the Sheriff of Person County to enforce the rules and regulations adopted by the board of county commissioners with respect to such parking area and the meters thereon; to collect the money deposited in such parking meters; and pay such money over to the county treasurer.

Sec. 2. All laws and clauses of laws in conflict with the provisions of this Act are hereby repealed.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 7th day of April, 1959.