NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1973 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 669

HOUSE BILL 340

 

AN ACT TO REPEAL SECTION 3 OF CHAPTER 1076 OF THE SESSION LAWS OF 1971 AND TO VALIDATE MUNICIPAL ZONING AND SUBDIVISION ORDINANCES.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

 

Section 1. Section 3 of Chapter 1076 of the Session Laws of 1971 is repealed.

Sec. 2. Any city ordinance regularly adopted before January 1, 1972, under authority of general laws revised and reenacted in G.S. Chapter 160A, Article 19, or under authority of any city charter or local act concerning the same subject matter, is validated with respect to its application within the corporate limits of the city and as to its application within the extraterritorial jurisdiction of the city. Such an ordinance, and any city ordinance adopted since January 1, 1972, under authority of general laws revised and reenacted in G.S. Chapter 160A, Article 19, are hereby validated, notwithstanding the fact that such ordinances were not recorded pursuant to G.S. 160A-360(b) or G.S. 160A-364 and notwithstanding the fact that the adopting city council did not also adopt an ordinance defining or delineating by specific description the areas within its extraterritorial jurisdiction pursuant to G.S. 160A-360; provided that this act shall be deemed to validate ordinances of cities in Mecklenburg County only with respect to their application within the corporate limits of such cities.

Sec. 3. This act is effective upon ratification.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 22nd day of May, 1973.