NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1963 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 903

SENATE BILL 558

 

 

AN ACT TO GRANT ADDITIONAL AUTHORITY TO THE CITY OF CHARLOTTE TO REGULATE PUBLIC SOLICITATIONS FOR CHARITABLE AND SIMILAR CAUSES.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

 

Section 1. The governing body of the City of Charlotte is hereby authorized to regulate, by ordinance, any and all public solicitations within the City for any charitable, benevolent, health, educational, religious, patriotic or other similar cause; provided, that such ordinance shall not apply to any solicitation made by any church or religious organization, school or college, fraternal or patriotic organization, or civic club when such solicitation is confined to their respective memberships. Such ordinance may provide for a separate board, body or commission to administer the ordinance in accordance with the rules and standards prescribed therein; may provide for regulation of the time, place and manner of soliciting; may require registration and permits and impose such fees therefor as may defray the reasonable costs thereof; may require and cause to be published such information as will tend to insure that the purpose of any solicitation will be free from any element of deceit or fraud; and may include such other requirements as may reasonably protect the public from fraudulent solicitations.

Sec. 2. The authority granted herein is in addition to any and all other authority now granted by law and is intended specifically to supplement and not to repeal, amend or affect the authority granted to the State Board of Public Welfare by Article 5, Chapter 108 of the General Statutes of North Carolina; provided, that any license granted by said Board shall not exempt the licensee from the provisions of any ordinance adopted pursuant to this Act.

Sec. 3. Except as provided in Section 2 above, all laws and clauses of laws in conflict with this Act are hereby repealed.

Sec. 4. This Act shall be in full force and effect from and after its ratification.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 13th day of June, 1963.