NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1973 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 1148

HOUSE BILL 1526

 

 

AN ACT TO AMEND THE POWERS AND DUTIES OF THE GOVERNOR TO ALLOW HIM TO AUTHORIZE THE NATIONAL GUARD AND/OR HIGHWAY PATROL TO REMOVE VEHICLES THAT ARE BLOCKING PUBLIC VEHICULAR AREAS.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

 

Section 1.  G.S. 147-12, as the same appears in the 1971 Cumulative Supplement to Volume 3C of the General Statutes, is hereby amended by adding a new subdivision (11) as follows:

"(11)    Upon being furnished information from law enforcement officers that public roads or highways or other public vehicular areas, as defined in G.S. 20-16.2(h), are being blocked by privately owned and operated vehicles or by any other means, thereby impeding the free flow of goods and merchandise in North Carolina, he, if such information warrants, is authorized to declare that a state of emergency exists in the affected area, and is further authorized to order that the Highway Patrol and/or National Guard remove the offending vehicles or other causes of the blockade from the emergency area."

Sec. 2.  This act shall become effective upon ratification.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 4th day of April, 1974.