A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT to provide that wheel locks may be used on lawfully parked vehicles with more than three parking tickets outstanding for more than ninety days in the city of durham.
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
SECTION 1.  Section 1 of S.L. 1995‑381 reads as rewritten:
"Section 1. The council of a city may provide, by ordinance, for the use of wheel locks on legally and  illegally parked vehicles for which there are three or more parking tickets that have been outstanding, unpaid, and overdue for a period of ninetydays or more. 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.  This act applies to the City of Durham only.
SECTION 3.  This act is effective when it becomes law.