1955_session laws_1195_3
CHAPTER 1194 AN ACT TO AMEND SECTIONS 62-121.8(1) AND 62-121.11 OF THE GENERAL STATUTES OF NORTH CAROLINA SO AS TO PROVIDE FOR THE REGULATION BY THE NORTH CAROLINA UTILITIES COMMISSION OF THE TRANSPORTATION OF HOUSEHOLD EF- FECTS WITHIN THE STATE OF NORTH CAROLINA. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:
That Section 62-121.8(1) be amended by adding an unnumbered paragraph immediately following paragraph (1), the last subsection, to read as follows: Provided that none of the provisions of this Section nor any of the provisions of this Act shall be construed so as to prohibit or regulate the transportation of property by any motor carrier when the movement is within a municipality or within contiguous municipalities and within a zone adjacent to and commercially a part of such municipality or contiguous municipalities, as defined by the Commission; provided further that the Commission shall have the power in its discretion, in any particular case, to fix the limits of any such zone and that nothing herein shall be construed as an abridgment of the police powers of any municipality over such operation wholly within any such municipality. Nothing in this Act shall be construed to prohibit or regulate the transportation of household effects of families from one residence to another by persons who do not hold themselves out as being, and are not generally engaged in the business of transporting such property for compensation.