NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1969 SESSION

CHAPTER 627

SENATE BILL 574

AN ACT TO PROVIDE FOR THE REMOVAL OF UNAUTHORIZED MOTOR VEHICLES FROM STATE-OWNED PARKING LOTS IN THE CITY OF RALEIGH.

The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

Section 1.  G.S. 129-4(4) as same appears in the 1964 Replacement Volume 3B of the General Statutes is hereby amended by adding a new subsection to be designated "(a)".

"G.S. 129-4(4)(a). Any motor vehicle parked in a State- owned parking lot, when such lot is clearly designated as such by a sign no smaller than 24 inches by 24 inches prominently displayed at the entrance thereto, in violation of the 'Rules and Regulations Governing State-Owned Parking Lots' dated September 1968 or as amended, may be removed from such lot to a place of storage and the registered owner of such vehicle shall become liable for removal and storage charges. No person shall be held to answer in any civil or criminal action to any owner, lienholder, or other person legally entitled to the possession of any motor vehicle removed from such lots pursuant to this Section except where such motor vehicle is willfully, maliciously or negligently damaged in the removal from aforesaid lot to place of storage.

Sec. 2. All laws and clauses of laws in conflict with this Act are hereby repealed.

Sec. 3. This Act shall become effective upon its ratification.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 28th day of May, 1969.