NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1969 SESSION

CHAPTER 848

HOUSE BILL 1099

AN ACT TO AMEND G.S. 47A-3 TO REDEFINE A "UNIT" OR "CONDOMINIUM UNIT" AND DEFINE "BUILDING".

The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

Section 1.  G.S. 47A-3(12), as the same appears in 1966 Replacement Volume 2A of the North Carolina General Statutes, is amended to read as follows:

"(12)    'Unit' or 'condominium unit' means an enclosed space consisting of one or more rooms occupying all or a part of a floor or floors in a building of one or more floors or stories regardless of whether it be designed for residence, for office, for the operation of any industry or business, or for any other type of independent use and shall include such accessory spaces and areas as may be described in the declaration, such as garage space, storage space, balcony, terrace or patio, provided it has a direct exit to a thoroughfare or to a given common space leading to a thoroughfare."

Sec. 2.  G.S. 47A-3, as the same appears in 1966 Replacement Volume 2A of the North Carolina General Statutes, is amended by adding thereto subsection (15), as follows:

"(15)    'Building' means a building, or a group of buildings, each building containing two (2) or more units, and comprising a part of the Property."

Sec. 3.  All laws and clauses of laws in conflict with this Act are hereby repealed.

Sec. 4.  This Act shall become effective upon ratification.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 16th day of June, 1969.