NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1959 SESSION

CHAPTER 812

HOUSE BILL 981

AN ACT TO AMEND THE CHARTER OF THE CITY OF RALEIGH RELATING TO PROTESTS BY ADJOINING PROPERTY OWNERS AGAINST REZONING OF PROPERTY.

The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

Section 1. That the second sentence of Section 100 (e) of the Charter of the City of Raleigh (the same being Chapter 1184 of the Session Laws of North Carolina, 1949, as amended) is hereby amended to read:

"In case, however, of a protest against such change filed at or before the public hearing by the governing body of the municipality, required to be held by G. S. 160-175, and signed by the owners of twenty per cent or more of the area of the lots included in such proposed change, or of those immediately adjacent thereto, either in the rear, in the front, or on either side thereof extending one hundred feet therefrom, or of those directly opposite thereto across a street therefrom, extending one hundred feet from the street frontage of such opposite lots, such amendment shall not become effective except by a favorable vote of three-fourths of all the members of the city council."

Sec. 2. All laws and clauses of laws in conflict with this Act are hereby repealed.

Sec. 3. This Act shall be in full force and effect from and after its ratification.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 9th day of June, 1959.