NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1961 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 548

HOUSE BILL 509

 

 

AN ACT TO AMEND G. S. 160-181.2 RELATING TO MUNICIPAL ZONING AUTHORITY.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

 

Section 1. G. S. 160-181.2, as the same appears in the 1959 Cumulative Supplement to Volume 3C of the General Statutes of North Carolina, is hereby amended as follows:

(1)       By striking out the words and figures "two thousand five hundred (2,500) or more" appearing in line three and line fifty of said Section and substituting in lieu thereof the words and figures "one thousand two hundred fifty (1,250) or more," and by striking out the last sentence of said Section.

(2)       By inserting the following paragraph between the third and fourth paragraphs of said Section:

"In the event the board of county commissioners fails to make the appointments provided for in this Section within ninety (90) days after receipt of a resolution from a municipal governing body requesting that such appointments be made, the municipal governing body may thereupon make such appointments."

(3)       By inserting the following paragraph between the fourth and fifth paragraphs of said Section:

"The additional members appointed to the zoning commission or planning board and the board of adjustment as provided for herein may be appointed to serve for terms corresponding to the terms of present members or for such other terms as the governing body of the municipality may, by ordinance, determine."

Sec. 1½. The provisions of this bill in Subsection (2) of Section 1 shall not be applicable to Vance County.

Sec. 1¾. Section 160-181.2 is hereby amended by striking out the word "Watauga" as it appears in the last paragraph of said Section.

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 All laws and clauses of laws in conflict with this Act are hereby repealed.

Sec. 3. This Act shall become effective upon its ratification.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 30th day of May, 1961.