RALEIGH, N.C. — A pair of North Carolina local governments didn’t skirt state laws by creating a red-light camera enforcement system where nearly a fourth of collected penalties failed to remain within the area school district, the state Supreme Court ruled Thursday.Although the city council discontinued the program months later, the cost-sharing arrangement between the city and the Pitt County Board of Education was also upheld by the state’s highest court.
When all those payments were complete, the Pitt school board received over a roughly two-year period 72% of the $2.5 million collected. But Earls said it was apparent through the 2016 law and other context that the General Assembly aimed to grant Greenville and the Pitt County board flexibility on the requirement that the municipality could keep no more than 10% of the fines. Greenville had initiated a red-light program once before, in the 2000s, but abandoned it a few years later, saying the 10% limit made the program economically infeasible, the opinion read.
“Greenville does not profit from the arrangement or use the fines to pad its general operating budget,” Earls wrote, adding that without the funding arrangement, “the program would not exist and Pitt County schools would lose an important pillar of financial support.”
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