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New law protects N.C. portable toilets

RALEIGH, N.C. (UPI) -- Members of North Carolina's portable toilet industry are touting new laws that impose misdemeanor charges on portable toilet vandals.

Officials welcomed the measure, which takes effect Dec. 1 and will mean judge-set fines of jail sentences of up to 120 days for anyone who "steals … destroys, defaces or vandalizes" a portable toilet, the Raleigh (N.C.) News & Observer reported.

Carey Mack, operations manager for Readilite & Barricade Inc., which operates about 4,000 portable toilets, welcomed the new law. He said about 200 of his company's toilets are targeted each month by vandals who set them on fire, tip them on their sides or cover them in spray paint.

He said replacing a stall can cost $500 to $750 and a handicapped stall can run the company $2,000.

"I've been doing this for 18 years and I've been scratching my head for 18 years wondering why they're doing it," Mack said of the vandals.

Copyright 2009 by United Press International

This news arrived on: 06/26/2009

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