AN ACT to permit trash trucks while collecting garbage to stop on the pavement of highways outside municipal limits in brunswick county.

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

SECTION 1.  G.S. 20‑161(a) reads as rewritten:
"(a)	No person shall park or leave standing any vehicle, whether attended or unattended, upon the paved or main‑traveled portion of any highway or highway bridge outside municipal corporate limits unless the vehicle is disabled to such an extent that it is impossible to avoid stopping and temporarily leaving the vehicle upon the paved or main traveled portion of the highway or highway bridge. This subsection shall not apply to a vehicle stopped on the highway while it is collecting garbage, as defined in G.S. 20‑118(c)(5)g."
SECTION 2.  This act applies to Brunswick County only.
SECTION 3.  This act is effective when it becomes law.
In the General Assembly read three times and ratified this the 11th day of August, 2005.

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		 Beverly E. Perdue
	 President of the Senate

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		 James B. Black
	 Speaker of the House of Representatives