NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1969 SESSION

CHAPTER 391

HOUSE BILL 654

AN ACT TO AMEND THE CHARTER OF THE TOWN OF GIBSONVILLE.

The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

Section 1.  Chapter 675 of the Session Laws of 1957, as amended by Chapter 297 of the Session Laws of 1967, is hereby amended by inserting therein, between Section 25.1 and Section 26 thereof, the following to be designated as Section 25.2:

"Section 25.2. Liens for cost of removal of motor vehicles. The Board of Aldermen may establish charges to be made for the cost of removing abandoned motor vehicles from private property. When the Town causes the removal of any vehicle from private property pursuant to an ordinance permitting such removal and the owner or other person having control of said property fails to pay the cost of removal within thirty (30) days after it becomes due, the amount of the cost of removal of such vehicle shall become a lien against the real property from which said vehicle was removed; said cost shall be placed upon the Town tax books against the said property and may be collected and the said lien may be foreclosed in the same manner as taxes are collected and foreclosed, or by suit, as the Town may determine."

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 All laws and clauses of laws in conflict with this Act are hereby repealed.

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

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 5th day of May, 1969.