Bill Text: NC S412 | 2017-2018 | Regular Session | Introduced
Bill Title: Abandoned Vehicles/Charities
Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Republican 2-1)
Status: (Passed) 2018-06-22 - Ch. SL 2018-43 [S412 Detail]
Download: North_Carolina-2017-S412-Introduced.html
GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA
SESSION 2017
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SENATE BILL DRS35194-ML-150 (03/17)
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Short Title: Improve Process/Sale of Unclaimed Vehicles. |
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Sponsors: |
Senator B. Jackson (Primary Sponsor). |
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A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT to require the division of motor vehicles to make available on its web site forms necessary for a person to sell an unclaimed motor vehicle and to allow the electronic submission of those.
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
SECTION 1. G.S. 20‑77(d) reads as rewritten:
"(d) An operator of a
place of business for garaging, repairing, parking or storing vehicles for the
public in which a vehicle remains unclaimed for 10 days, or the landowners upon
whose property a motor vehicle has been abandoned for more than 30 days, shall,
within five days after the expiration of that period, report the vehicle as
unclaimed to the Division. Failure to make suchthe report shall
constitute a Class 3 misdemeanor. Persons who are required to make this report
and who fail to do so within the time period specified may collect other
charges due but may not collect storage charges for the period of time between
when they were required to make this report and when they actually did send the
report to the Division by certified mail.
Any vehicle which remains unclaimed
after report is made to the Division may be sold by suchthe
operator or landowner in accordance with the provisions relating to the
enforcement of liens and the application of proceeds of sale of Article 1 of
Chapter 44A. The Division shall make all forms required by the Division to
effectuate a sale under this subsection available on the Division's Web site,
and the Division shall allow for the electronic submission of these forms. Any
form required by the Division to effectuate a sale under this subsection that
requires a signature may be submitted with an electronic signature in
accordance with Article 40 of Chapter 66 of the General Statutes."
SECTION 2. This act becomes effective July 1, 2017.
