NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1971 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 165

SENATE BILL 51

 

 

AN ACT TO INCREASE THE FINE FOR PLACING TRASH ON THE HIGHWAYS.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

 

Section 1.  G.S. 14-399 is hereby amended by deleting the words and figures "fifty dollars ($50.00)" in the last paragraph thereof and inserting in lieu thereof "two hundred dollars ($200.00)" so that G.S. 14-399 shall read as follows:

"§ 14-399.  Placing of trash, refuse, etc. , on the right-of-way of any public road. — It is unlawful for any person, firm, organization or private corporation, or for the governing body, agents or employees of any municipal corporation, to place or leave or cause to be placed or left temporarily or permanently, any trash, refuse garbage, scrapped automobile, scrapped truck or part thereof on the right-of-way of any State highway or public road where said highway or public road is outside of an incorporated town, unless such refuse, garbage, scrapped automobile, scrapped truck or part thereof is placed in a designated location or container for removal by a specific garbage or trash service collector.

The placing or leaving of the articles or matter forbidden by this section shall, for each day or portion thereof that said articles or matter are placed or left, constitute a separate offense.

A violation of this section is a misdemeanor punishable by a fine of not less than ten dollars ($10.00) or more than two hundred dollars ($200.00), imprisonment for not more than thirty (30) days, or both."

Sec.2.  This act shall become effective on September 1, 1971.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 8th day of April, 1971.