GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA

SESSION 1995

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HOUSE BILL 667
Committee Substitute Favorable 4/19/95

Short Title:  Wheel Locks.	(Local)

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March 30, 1995

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT TO ALLOW CERTAIN MUNICIPALITIES TO USE WHEEL LOCKS ON ILLEGALLY PARKED VEHICLES.
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
Section 1.  Section 1 of Chapter 291 of the Session Laws of 1993 reads as rewritten:
"Section 1.  The council of a city 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 ninety 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 fifty dollars ($50.00), and charges for towing and storage.  The city 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.  Section 2 of Chapter 291 of the Session Laws of 1993 reads as rewritten:
"Sec. 2.  This act applies to the Cities of Durham, Raleigh, Winston-Salem, and Greensboro only."
Sec. 3.  This act is effective upon ratification.