NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1967 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 1158

SENATE BILL 486

 

 

AN ACT TO AMEND CHAPTER 20 OF THE GENERAL STATUTES, SO AS TO AUTHORIZE THE REMOVAL OF PARKED OR ABANDONED MOTOR VEHICLES FROM PUBLIC HIGHWAYS.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

 

Section 1.  Article 7, Chapter 20 of the General Statutes is hereby amended by adding a new Section at the end thereof, to be designated G. S. 20-219.1, and to read as follows:

"§ 20-219.1.  Parked or Abandoned Vehicles Removed from Public Highways. Any motor vehicle left parked and unattended, or abandoned, on any public highway or right-of-way thereof, for a period of forty-eight hours shall, at the direction of any full-time law enforcement officer, be towed to a place of safety and storage."

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  All laws and clauses of laws in conflict with this Act are hereby repealed.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 6th day of July, 1967.