AN ACT to allow the city of FAYETTEVILLE to use wheel locks to enforce parking regulations.

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

SECTION 1.  Section 3 of S.L. 2003‑240, as amended by S.L. 2007‑330, reads as rewritten:
"SECTION 3.  Section 1 of this act applies to the City of Fayetteville and the Towns of Boiling Springs, Carolina Beach, and Wrightsville Beach only.
SECTION 2.  Section 1 of S.L. 2003‑240 reads as rewritten:
"SECTION 1.  The council of a city may provide, by ordinance, for the use of wheel locks on illegally parked vehicles within the designated area, 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, notice to be sent to the registered owner of the vehicle by mail, 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 3.  Section 2 of this act applies to the City of Fayetteville only.
SECTION 4.  This act is effective when it becomes law.
In the General Assembly read three times and ratified this the 1st day of July, 2010.

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		 Walter H. Dalton
	 President of the Senate

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		 Joe Hackney
	 Speaker of the House of Representatives