§ 11-32. Use of parking lots.

(a)

Definition. "Parking lot" means, for the purposes of this section, any area within the town of sufficient size to provide space on which more than five (5) automobiles may be parked and shall include public parking lots and those parking lots which are for the principal purpose of providing parking during business hours for shopping centers, stores, restaurants, drive-ins, theaters and other business or commercial establishments.

(b)

Congregation prohibited. It shall be unlawful for more than five (5) people to congregate on any one (1) parking lot in the town between the hours of 9:00 p.m. and 6:00 a.m., if the closest part of the parking lot is within three hundred (300) feet of a private residence, except for the purpose of patronizing a business establishment which is actually open for business between such hours and which is actually open at the time of such congregation.

(c)

Enumeration of offenses. It shall be unlawful for any person on a parking lot in the town, between the hours of 9:00 p.m. and 6:00 a.m., to do one (1) or more of the following:

(1)

Talk in a loud or boisterous manner;

(2)

Drink beer or any kind of alcoholic beverage;

(3)

Throw any type of bottle, can, container, trash or paper on the parking lot;

(4)

Use profanity or curse in such a manner that those standing in the immediate vicinity of the person may hear the profanity or cursing;

(5)

Make such noise or disturbance that persons living in homes or other dwelling accommodations within three hundred (300) feet of the parking lot are disturbed in their place of living and deprived of their peace and quiet.

(Code 1967, § 26-183)

State law reference

Authority to regulate off-street parking lots, G.S. § 160A-302.