GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA

1987 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 1023

HOUSE BILL 2243

 

AN ACT MAKING SUNDRY AMENDMENTS CONCERNING LOCAL GOVERNMENTS IN ORANGE AND CHATHAM COUNTIES-2.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

 

TITLE I. GENERAL LAW BOARD OF ADJUSTMENT FOR CHAPEL HILL

Sec. 1.  Section 5.12 of the Charter of the Town of Chapel Hill, being Chapter 473, Session Laws of 1975 as amended by Section 1(7) of Chapter 693, Session Laws of 1977, as renumbered to be Section 5.11 under G.S. 160A-496, is repealed.

TITLE II. CAMPAIGN REPORTING BY CANDIDATES FOR

MUNICIPAL ELECTION IN THE TOWN OF CHAPEL HILL

Sec. 2.  Notwithstanding G.S. 163-278.6(18) and G.S. 163-278.40(2), the provisions of Part 2 of Article 22A of Chapter 163 of the General Statutes are made applicable to municipal elections and election campaigns in the Town of Chapel Hill.

TITLE III. TOWING OF ILLEGALLY PARKED VEHICLES

FROM PARKING LOTS OWNED BY THE TOWN OF CHAPEL HILL

Sec. 3.  (a) The governing board of a town may enact reasonable ordinances with respect to the parking of motor vehicles in any off-street parking facilities owned by that town and to enforce those ordinances.

(b)       Any motor vehicle parked in a town-owned parking lot, when such lot is clearly designated as such by a sign no smaller than 24 inches by 24 inches stating the ordinance regulations with respect to that lot and prominently displayed at the entrance thereto, in violation of an ordinance adopted pursuant to this act may be removed from such lot to a place of storage operated by the town and the registered owner of that vehicle shall become liable for removal and storage charges.  No person acting as an agent for the town shall be held to answer in any civil or criminal action to any owner, lienholder, or other person legally entitled to the possession of any motor vehicle removed pursuant to this act except where such motor vehicle is willfully, maliciously or negligently damaged in the removal from aforesaid lot to place of storage.

(c)       This section applies to the Town of Chapel Hill only.

TITLE IV. PITTSBORO ANNEXATIONS

Sec. 4.1.  The provisions of G.S. 160A-58.1(b)(5) shall not apply to the Town of Pittsboro as to any ordinance adopted under G.S. 160A-58.2 on or before December 31, 1988.

Sec. 4.2.  (a) The following tract or parcel of land is annexed into the Town of Pittsboro:

Beginning at the intersection of the existing Pittsboro town limits and the northern right-of-way of Thompson Street, thence with the northern right-of-way of Thompson Street to a point due north of Mrs. Henry White's northwest corner, thence with Mrs. White's line in a southwesterly direction to an iron stake; thence continuing in a southwesterly direction to Chart's Branch; thence down the various courses of said Branch to the southern bank of Roberson's Creek; thence with the southern bank of Roberson's Creek to the existing town limits; thence with the existing town limits to the point of Beginning.

(b)       This section shall become effective on the date of ratification of this act or June 30, 1988, whichever is later.

Sec. 5.  This act is effective upon ratification.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified this the 29th day of June, 1988.