A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT to permit garbage trucks to stop on the pavement of highways outside MUNICIPAL limits while collecting garbage.
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 solid waste vehicle stopped on a highway while engaged in collecting garbage or recyclables as defined in G.S. 20‑118(c)(5)g."
SECTION 2.  This act becomes effective October 1, 2009.