GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA

1993 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 609

HOUSE BILL 1722

 

AN ACT TO PERMIT THE CITY OF GREENVILLE TO USE WHEEL LOCKS.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

 

Section 1.  The City Council of the City of Greenville may provide, by ordinance, for the use of wheel locks on illegally parked vehicles for which there are three or more unpaid parking tickets which are at least 90 days overdue.  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 of Greenville shall not be responsible for any damage to an immobilized illegally parked vehicle resulting from unauthorized attempts to free or move that vehicle.

Sec. 2.  This act applies to the City of Greenville only.

Sec. 3.  This act is effective upon ratification.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified this the 1st day of July, 1994.

 

 

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Dennis A. Wicker

President of the Senate

 

 

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Daniel Blue, Jr.

Speaker of the House of Representatives