Title: S.L. 1959-787

NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY
1959 SESSION

CHAPTER 787
HOUSE BILL 813

AN ACT TO PERMIT THE GOVERNING BODY OF THE TOWN OF WHITEVILLE IN COLUMBUS COUNTY TO ESTABLISH REASONABLE RULES RELATING TO APPEALS TO THE BOARD OF ADJUSTMENT.

The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

Section 1. The governing body of the Town of Whiteville may establish by ordinance general and reasonable rules fixing the time within which appeals shall be taken from any order, requirement, decision or determination made by the town manager, the building inspector or any other administrative official charged with the enforcement of any ordinance adopted pursuant to Article 14 of Chapter 160 of the General Statutes, and general and reasonable rules regulating the procedure for taking such appeals, for the giving of notice to interested parties and to the general public (including reasonable notice in a newspaper published in the Town of Whiteville), for the conduct of hearings by the Board of Adjustment, for keeping the records by the Board of Adjustment and for the issuance of certificates of its decisions by the Board of Adjustment. The governing body of the town may prescribe by ordinance the forms of notices, orders, and certificates to be issued by said Board of Adjustment and to be used in proceedings before said board, and may from time to time amend such general rules and regulations. Said governing body may require reasonable costs to be advanced by appellants, so as to defray the expenses of the town in connection with such appeals and hearings.
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 All laws and clauses of laws in conflict with this Act are hereby repealed.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.