GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA
1987 SESSION

CHAPTER 902
SENATE BILL 1604

AN ACT CONCERNING THE REGULATION, RESTRAINT, AND PROHIBITION OF JUNKED MOTOR VEHICLES IN MECKLENBURG COUNTY.

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

Section 1.  G.S. 153A-132.2 reads as rewritten:
"§ 153A-132.2.  Regulation, restraint and prohibition of abandonment of junked motor vehicles.–(a) Dare, Alamance, Ashe, Bladen, Brunswick, Burke, Cabarrus, Caldwell, Cumberland, Davie, Gaston, Guilford, Halifax, Henderson, Iredell, Jackson, Lincoln, Moore, New Hanover, Pender, Rockingham, Rowan, Surry, Wake, Wayne, Stokes, Alleghany, Carteret and Columbus Counties may by ordinance regulate, restrain or prohibit the abandonment of junked motor vehicles on public grounds and on private property within the county's ordinance-making jurisdiction upon a finding that such regulation, restraint or prohibition is necessary and desirable to promote or enhance community, neighborhood or area appearance.  The authority granted by this section shall be supplemental to any other authority conferred upon counties.  Nothing in this section shall be construed to authorize a county to require the removal or disposal of a motor vehicle kept or stored at a bona fide 'automobile graveyard' or 'junkyard' as defined in G.S. 136-143.
For purposes of this section, the term 'junked motor vehicle' means a vehicle that does not display a current license plate and that:
(1)	Is partially dismantled or wrecked; or
(2)	Cannot be self-propelled or moved in the manner in which it originally was intended to move; or
(3)	Is more than five years old and appears to be worth less than one hundred dollars ($100.00).
(b)	Any ordinance adopted pursuant to this section shall include a prohibition against removing or disposing of any motor vehicle that is used on a regular basis for business or personal use."
Sec. 2.  (a) A county may by ordinance regulate, restrain or prohibit junked motor vehicles on public grounds and on private property within the county's ordinance-making jurisdiction upon a finding that such regulation, restraint or prohibition is necessary and desirable to promote or enhance community, neighborhood or area appearance.  The authority granted by this section shall be supplemental to any other authority conferred upon the county.
(b)	For purposes of this section, the term "junked motor vehicle" means a vehicle that does not display a current license plate and that:
(1)	Is partially dismantled or wrecked; or
(2)	Cannot be self-propelled or moved in the manner in which it originally was intended to move; or
(3)	Is more than five years old and appears to be worth less than one hundred dollars ($100.00).
(c)	Any ordinance adopted pursuant to this section shall include a prohibition against removing or disposing of any motor vehicle that is used on a regular basis for business or personal use.
(d)	This section applies to Mecklenburg County only.
Sec. 3.  This act is effective upon ratification.
In the General Assembly read three times and ratified this the 23rd day of June, 1988.