State v. Scoggin
Supreme Court of North Carolina
Appeal by defendant from Carr, J., March Term, 1952, Wake. Criminal prosecution under warrant issued out of the City Court of the City of Raleigh in which it is charged that defendant violated a city parking ordinance by (1) leaving his automobile standing in a meter-controlled parking space without setting said meter in operation by depositing “a coin of any sort” therein, and (2) parking overtime.
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Appeal by defendant from Carr, J., March Term, 1952, Wake. Criminal prosecution under warrant issued out of the City Court of the City of Raleigh in which it is charged that defendant violated a city parking ordinance by (1) leaving his automobile standing in a meter-controlled parking space without setting said meter in operation by depositing “a coin of any sort” therein, and (2) parking overtime. The City of Raleigh has adopted and there is now in force in said city an ordinance declaring that certain areas of the city, mainly in the business section, are so congested by vehicular traffic…
1Opinion of the CourtBaehhill, J.
Following our decision in Rhodes, Inc., v. Raleigh, 217 N.C. 627, 9 S.E. 2d 389, the General Assembly adopted Cb. 153, Session Laws of 1941, now G.S. 160-200 (31), vesting in the municipalities of tbe State authority “to regulate and limit vehicular parking on streets and highways in congested areas.” Tbe Act further provides in part that “in tbe regulátion and limitation of vehicular traffic and parking in cities and towns tbe governing bodies may, in their discretion, enact ordinances providing for a system of parking meters designed to promote traffic regulation and requiring a reasonable…
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