NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1965 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 194

HOUSE BILL 229

 

 

AN ACT SIMPLIFYING PROCEDURES FOR ADOPTING COUNTY ZONING ORDINANCES AND AUTHORIZING COMPENSATION FOR MEMBERS OF THE BOARD OF ADJUSTMENT.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

 

Section 1.  Article 20B of Chapter 153 of the General Statutes of North Carolina, as the same appears in the 1964 Replacement Volume 3C, being the county zoning enabling Act, is hereby amended as follows.

Sec. 2.  Section 153-266.13 is amended by deleting the words "after a public hearing" which appear in lines two and three of the second paragraph thereof.

Sec. 3.  Section 153-266.14 is amended by changing the word "shall" to "may" in line six thereof, and by changing the word "Each" to the words "Any such" in line seven thereof.

Sec. 4.  Section 153-266.17 is amended by adding the following sentence at the end of the first paragraph thereof: "The board of commissioners may, if it deems such payments wise, provide for payment of any reasonable compensation to the members of the board of adjustment or for reimbursement of their expenses in connection with their official duties."

Sec. 5.  Should any Section, clause, or provision of this Act be declared by the courts to be unconstitutional or invalid for any reason, such decision shall not affect the validity of the Act as a whole nor any part thereof other than the part so declared to be unconstitutional or invalid.

Sec. 6.  All laws and clauses of laws in conflict herewith are hereby repealed to the extent of such conflict.

Sec. 7.  This Act shall become effective upon its ratification.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 7th day of April, 1965.