GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA
SESSION 2009
SESSION LAW 2009-104
HOUSE BILL 825
AN ACT to permit garbage trucks to stop on the pavement of highways outside MUNICIPAL limits while collecting garbage or RECYCLABLE material.
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
SECTION 1. G.S. 20-161(a) reads as rewritten:
"(a) No person shall park or leave standing any vehicle, whether attended or unattended, upon the paved or main-traveled portion of any highway or highway bridge outside municipal corporate limits unless the vehicle is disabled to such an extent that it is impossible to avoid stopping and temporarily leaving the vehicle upon the paved or main traveled portion of the highway or highway bridge. This subsection shall not apply to a solid waste vehicle stopped on a highway while engaged in collecting garbage as defined in G.S. 20-118(c)(5)g. or recyclable material as defined in G.S. 130A-290(a)(26)."
SECTION 2. This act becomes effective October 1, 2009, and applies to offenses occurring on or after that date.
In the General Assembly read three times and ratified this the 4th day of June, 2009.
s/ Walter H. Dalton
President of the Senate
s/ Joe Hackney
Speaker of the House of Representatives
s/ Beverly E. Perdue
Governor
Approved 4:30 p.m. this 15th day of June, 2009