NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1959 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 953

HOUSE BILL 1122

 

 

AN ACT TO AUTHORIZE THE BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS OF ROWAN COUNTY TO LICENSE AND REGULATE ALL VEHICLES OPERATED FOR HIRE IN UNINCORPORATED CITIES AND TOWNS IN SAID COUNTY.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

 

Section 1. The Board of County Commissioners of Rowan County is authorized and empowered to license and regulate all vehicles operated for hire in unincorporated cities and towns in Rowan County; to require that the operator of every jitney bus or taxicab and of every other motor vehicle, other than jitney busses and taxicabs operated under the jurisdiction of the Utilities Commission of North Carolina, engaged in the business of transporting passengers for hire over the public streets of such unincorporated city or town shall furnish and keep in effect for each such jitney bus, taxicab or other such motor vehicle so operated a policy of insurance or surety bonds with sureties whose solvency shall at all times be subject to the approval of the Board of County Commissioners of Rowan County, said policy of insurance or surety bond to be in such amount as may be fixed by the Board of County Commissioners of Rowan County, not to exceed the sum of ten thousand dollars ($10,000.00), and to be conditioned on such operator responding in damages for any liability incurred on account of any injury to persons or damage to property resulting from the operation of any such jitney bus, taxicab, or other such motor vehicle, and to be filed with the Board of County Commissioners of Rowan County as a condition precedent to the operation of any such jitney bus, taxicab or other such motor vehicle over the streets of such unincorporated city or town.

Sec. 2. This Act shall apply to Rowan County only.

Sec. 3. All laws and clauses of laws in conflict with the provisions of this Act are hereby repealed.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 12th day of June, 1959.