GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA
1995 SESSION

CHAPTER 75
HOUSE BILL 128

AN ACT TO PERMIT THE CITY OF HENDERSON AND THE CITY OF ASHEVILLE TO USE WHEEL LOCKS ON CERTAIN ILLEGALLY PARKED VEHICLES.

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

Section 1.  The City Council of the City of Henderson and the City Council of the City of Asheville may provide, by ordinance, for the use of wheel locks on illegally parked vehicles for which there are three or more outstanding, unpaid, and overdue parking tickets for a period of 90 days.  The ordinance shall provide for notice or warning to be affixed to the vehicle, immobilization, towing, impoundment, appeal hearing, an immobilization fee not to exceed twenty-five dollars ($25.00), and charges for towing and storage.  The City of Henderson and the City of Asheville shall not be responsible for any damage to an immobilized illegally parked vehicle resulting from unauthorized attempts to free or move that vehicle.
Sec. 2.  This act applies to the City of Henderson and the City of Asheville only.
Sec. 3.  This act is effective upon ratification.
In the General Assembly read three times and ratified this the 11th day of May, 1995.

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Dennis A. Wicker
President of the Senate

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Harold J. Brubaker
Speaker of the House of Representatives