RALEIGH — A judge in Wake County Superior Court on Friday agreed to temporarily suspend some of the new rules for the N.C. Legislative Building.

Judge Carl Fox, an Orange County judge presiding in Wake County this week, made the ruling after hearing arguments from attorneys for the NAACP and the special deputy attorney generals representing the state.

Fox said a rule stating that visitors to the legislative complex “may not disturb or act in a manner that will imminently disturb” the General Assembly, its members, committees or staff, was overly broad.

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Fox also suspended a rule allowing the confiscation and punishment of somebody with “a sign that is used to disturb or used in a manner that will imminently disturb.”

And Fox criticized and temporarily suspended a rule that allows for the arrest of anybody “creating any impediment to others’ free movement around the grounds.” The judge noted that people sometimes walk three abreast on a sidewalk, blocking others, either intentionally or unintentionally.