GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA
1983 SESSION

CHAPTER 1026 
HOUSE BILL 1526 

AN ACT TO PERMIT REGULATION OF SAND DUNES BY KITTY HAWK, KILL DEVIL HILLS, NAGS HEAD AND SOUTHERN SHORES. 

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

Section 1.  Sand dunes are a unique topographical feature of Kitty Hawk, Kill Devil Hills, Nags Head and Southern Shores that are a tourist attraction and protect the towns from the danger of flooding and erosion.  Therefore, to promote the health, safety and general welfare of their residents, these towns may by ordinance define, prohibit, or regulate acts, omissions, or conditions that damage, destroy, or remove any sand dune or kill, destroy, or remove any vegetation growing on any sand dune.  Nothing herein shall be construed to allow the adoption of an ordinance that affects the emergency maintenance and repair provisions of G.S. 113A-103(5)b.5 or that affects any rules adopted by the North Carolina Coastal Resources Commission dealing with oceanfront erosion control. 
Sec. 2.  This act applies only to the Towns of Kitty Hawk, Kill Devil Hills, Nags Head and Southern Shores. 
Sec. 3.  This act is effective upon ratification. 
In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 28th day of June, 1984.