NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 80

SENATE BILL 68

 

 

AN ACT TO AMEND G.S. 153-9 TO GRANT TO BOards of county commissioners the same authority as now granted to municipalities to regulate itinerant merchants, PEDDLERS, HAWKERS AND SOLICITORS.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

 

Section 1.  G.S. 153-9 is hereby amended by adding thereto the following subdivision, immediately following subdivision (20):

(20a)    To Prohibit or Regulate Itinerant Merchants, Peddlers, Hawkers and Solicitors. In that portion of the county lying outside the jurisdiction of an incorporated city or town, to prohibit or to regulate itinerant merchants, peddlers, hawkers and solicitors. Such regulations may include, but shall not be limited to, requirements that an application be submitted, that a permit be issued, that an investigation be made, that such activities be reasonably limited as to time and area, that proper credentials and proof of financial stability be submitted, and that an adequate bond be posted to protect the public from fraud; provided, that the board of county commissioners may make such regulations applicable within the jurisdiction of any incorporated city or town whose governing body, by resolution, consents to such regulations and until such time as such consent may, by resolution, be withdrawn.

Sec. 2.  This Act shall apply to all counties as required by Article II, Section 29, of the Constitution of North Carolina.

Sec. 2 1/2.  If any person, firm or corporation shall violate any regulation or ordinance adopted pursuant to this Act, such person, firm or corporation shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and shall be fined not exceeding fifty dollars ($50.00) or imprisoned not exceeding thirty days.

Sec. 3.  All laws and clauses of laws in conflict with this Act are hereby repealed, provided no local Act relating to the practice of palmistry, fortune telling or clairvoyance shall be repealed by this Act.

Sec. 4.  This Act shall become effective upon its ratification.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 23rd day of March, 1967.