GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA
1995 SESSION

CHAPTER 323
HOUSE BILL 656

AN ACT TO MAKE AMENDMENTS TO THE RALEIGH CITY CHARTER AND TO ALLOW THE CITY OF RALEIGH TO IMPOSE CERTAIN REGULATIONS ON PORTIONS OF STATE SYSTEM HIGHWAYS.

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

Section 1.  Section 33 of the Raleigh City Charter, being Chapter 1184 of the 1949 Session Laws, and currently codified as Article 3.9 of the Raleigh City Charter, is hereby amended by adding a new subsection (c) to read:
"(c)	Notwithstanding the provisions of subsection (a) of this section, nothing herein shall be construed as preventing any official or employee covered by this section from purchasing a utility service offered to the general public at uniform rates, sludge generated at a wastewater treatment plant, farm products grown on City-owned or City-leased farms, and mulch produced at the City's yard waste processing center."
Sec. 2.  Notwithstanding the provisions of any other law, the City of Raleigh is hereby authorized to make applicable to State Highway System rights-of-way its regulations and ordinances relating to loitering, panhandling, begging, and soliciting.
Sec. 3.  This act is effective upon ratification.
In the General Assembly read three times and ratified this the 22nd day of June, 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