2003 North Carolina Impound Law

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What has changed since 2003?

 

NC has a new law that became effective 10/01/2003,
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 such 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 storages charges for the period of time between when they were required to make this report and when the 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 such 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.'1 .
Before 10/01/2003 the person authorizing the tow had to file the papers with DMV