NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1969 SESSION

CHAPTER 654

SENATE BILL 490

AN ACT TO AMEND G.S. 160-172 OF ZONING REGULATIONS SO AS TO AUTHORIZE THE AMORTIZATION OF NON-CONFORMING BUILDINGS AND USES IN THE CITY OF DURHAM.

The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

Section 1.  That Section 160-172 of the General Statutes of North Carolina be amended by adding at the end of said Section two sentences to read as follows:

The governing body of the City of Durham shall have and is hereby granted power and authority to provide by ordinance for the amortization and phasing out of non-conforming buildings and uses upon such reasonable terms and provisions, including a period of time, as to it seems just and proper.

Said governing body shall have, and is hereby granted, power and authority to provide and require by ordinance that special types of dwellings such as those known as 'town house' or of similar category be required to have an organized home ownership or similar association to assist in the orderly regulation and policing of such 'town houses' or similar category, on such reasonable terms and regulations as the governing body may promulgate.

Sec. 2. All laws and clauses of laws in conflict herewith are hereby repealed.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 29th day of May, 1969.