AN ACT to allow the towns of carolina beach, Wrightsville beach, and yadkinville to use wheel locks on illegally parked vehicles.

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

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 issued on at least three separate 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.
SECTION 2.  Section 2 of Chapter 291 of the 1993 Session Laws, as amended by Chapter 381 of the 1995 Session Laws, S.L. 1997‑218, and S.L. 2002‑127, reads as rewritten:
"Sec. 2. This act applies to the Cities of Durham, Greensboro, Lenoir, Monroe, Raleigh, Winston-Salem, and the Town of Yadkinville only. This act shall also apply to the City of Wilmington, but only as to the area in the central business district as defined in that City's zoning ordinance as of June 1, 1997."
SECTION 3.  Section 1 of this act applies to the Towns of Carolina Beach and Wrightsville Beach only.
SECTION 4.  Section 2 of this act applies to the Town of Yadkinville only.
SECTION 5.  This act is effective when it becomes law.
In the General Assembly read three times and ratified this the 24th day of June, 2003.

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		 Marc Basnight
	 President Pro Tempore of the Senate

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		 Richard T. Morgan
	 Speaker of the House of Representatives