Bill Text: NC S870 | 2013-2014 | Regular Session | Chaptered
Bill Title: Durham/Payments for On-Street Parking
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)
Status: (Passed) 2014-06-26 - Ch. SL 2014-34 [S870 Detail]
Download: North_Carolina-2013-S870-Chaptered.html
GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA
SESSION 2013
SESSION LAW 2014-34
SENATE BILL 870
AN ACT authorizing the city of durham to allow payment for on‑street parking by various means and to use proceeds from on‑street parking for parking programs and providing parking facilities.
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
SECTION 1. G.S. 160A‑301 reads as rewritten:
"§ 160A‑301. Parking.
(a) On‑Street
Parking. – A city may by ordinance regulate, restrict, and prohibit the parking
of vehicles on the public streets, alleys, and bridges within the city. When
parking is permitted for a specified period of time at a particular location, a
city may install a parking meter at that location and require any person
parking a vehicle therein to place the meter in operation pay a fee for
the entire time that the vehicle remains in that location, up to the maximum
time allowed for parking there. Parking meters may be activated by coins or
tokens. The city may require that payment for vehicle parking be made by
a means of payment specified by the city, including coins, currency, tokens,
credit cards, or electronic means. Proceeds from the use of parking meters
or devices for parking on public streets must be used to defray the cost
of enforcing and administering traffic and parking ordinances and
regulations.operating the city's parking program or providing parking
facilities.
…."
SECTION 2. This act applies to the City of Durham only.
SECTION 3. This act is effective when it becomes law.
In the General Assembly read three times and ratified this the 26th day of June, 2014.
s/ Philip E. Berger
President Pro Tempore of the Senate
s/ Thom Tillis
Speaker of the House of Representatives
