(A) No motor vehicle shall be parked on the following county-owned property, except when the driver or an occupant is engaged in county business within the county administrative building or has an office therein: All that certain lot or parcel of land, together with the houses and improvements thereon, lying and being in the Town of Manteo, Nags Head Township, Dare County, North Carolina, adjoining the lands of Edna E. Bell and others, and bounded as follows: Beginning at an iron pipe situated in and on the north margin or right-of-way of the state highway leading into Manteo, North Carolina, also known as Highway Street in the Town of Manteo, North Carolina, the iron pipe being in and marking the southeast corner of the lands of Mrs. Edna E. Bell on the north side of Highway Street; the iron pipe and beginning point is also located 137 feet measured along the north margin or right-of-way of Highway Street north 72 degrees 28 minutes east from the face of the curb at the northeast corner of the intersection of Church and Highway Streets in the Town of Manteo, North Carolina, running thence from the beginning point along the north margin or right-of-way of Highway Street north 72 degrees 28 minutes east 177.80 feet to a post or other marker; thence, north 15 degrees 38 minutes west 101.30 feet to a point; thence south 75 degrees 0 minutes 30 seconds west 190 feet, more or less, to a post or other marker situated in and marking the east line of the Mrs. Edna E. Bell property; thence, along the Mrs. Edna E. Bell property east line south 19 degrees 22 minutes 45 seconds east 115 feet, more or less, to the point of beginning, except as this description may have been modified by that certain boundary agreement between Dare County and Mabel Evans Jones, dated March 7, 1975, and recorded in deed book 222 at page 103, Dare County Registry, on file in the office of the County Register of Deeds and incorporated in this section by reference.
(B) The hours during which this section shall be effective are 7:00 a.m. through 6:00 p.m., Monday through Friday of each week; except, that within the emergency lane shown on the plat on file in the office of the register of deeds, incorporated in this section by reference, this section shall be effective at all times (24 hours a day, seven days a week).
(C) PARKING shall be defined, for the purposes of this section, as the stopping of a motor vehicle without an attendant and qualified driver in a position to control the movement of the vehicle.
(D) Vehicles parked in violation of this section may be removed by the county or its agent to a storage area or garage, and the owner or his or her agent, as a condition of regaining possession of the vehicle, shall be required to pay to the county all reasonable costs incidental to the removal and storage of the vehicle. These costs shall be in addition to any criminal fines should a warrant be issued.
(E) Vehicles unclaimed within 30 days from removal shall be deemed to be abandoned, and the county may institute a proceeding to sell the same to satisfy the storage and other charges.
(Prior Code, § 70.01) (Am. Ord. passed 6-5-1978) Penalty, see § 70.99