NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1971 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 109

HOUSE BILL 134

 

 

AN ACT TO AMEND G.S. 153-9(54) CONCERNING REGULATION AND CONTROL OF MOTOR VEHICLES ON COUNTY-OWNED PROPERTY.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

 

Section 1.  G.S. 153-9(54) is hereby amended by adding a second paragraph to said statute to read as follows:

"Boards of county commissioners may also provide by resolution adopted pursuant to this section that any motor vehicle parked on county-owned property when so designated by sign or otherwise in violation of regulations adopted may be removed or towed away from said county-owned property by or under the direction of any official designated by said governing body to a storage area or garage, and that the owner shall be deemed to have appointed such designated official his agent for the purpose of arranging for the transportation and safe storage of such vehicle and accepting a warehouse receipt from the person or firm providing such transportation and storage. The owner of such vehicle before obtaining possession thereof shall pay to the county all reasonable costs incidental to the removal and storage and any fines due for violation of said parking regulation."

Sec. 2.  This act shall be in full force and effect from and after ratification.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 23rd day of March, 1971.