NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1979 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 745

HOUSE BILL 1405

 

 

AN ACT TO ALLOW LOCAL GOVERNMENTS TO ENACT ORDINANCES BANNING VEHICLES IN PRIVATE PARKING LOTS.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

 

Section 1.  A new section is added to Chapter 153A of the General Statutes to read:

"§ 153A-139.  Regulation of traffic at parking areas and driveways. — The governing body of any county may, by ordinance, regulate the stopping, standing, or parking of vehicles in specified areas of any parking areas or driveways of a hospital, shopping center, apartment house, condominium complex, or commercial office complex or any other privately owned public vehicular area, or prohibit such stopping, standing, or parking during any specified hours, provided the owner or person in general charge of the operation and control of that area requests in writing that such an ordinance be adopted. The owner of a vehicle parked in violation of an ordinance adopted pursuant to this subsection shall be deemed to have appointed any appropriate law enforcement officer as his agent for the purpose of arranging for the transportation and safe storage of such vehicle."

Sec. 2.  A new subsection is added to G.S. 160A-301 to read:

"(d)      The governing body of any city may, by ordinance, regulate the stopping, standing, or parking of vehicles in specified areas of any parking areas or driveways of a hospital, shopping center, apartment house, condominium complex, or commercial office complex, or any other privately owned public vehicular area, or prohibit such stopping, standing, or parking during any specified hours, provided the owner or person in general charge of the operation and control of that area requests in writing that such an ordinance be adopted. The owner of a vehicle parked in violation of an ordinance adopted pursuant to this subsection shall be deemed to have appointed any appropriate law enforcement officer as his agent for the purpose of arranging for the transportation and safe storage of such vehicle."

Sec. 3.  This act is effective upon ratification.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 1st day of June, 1979.