GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA

SESSION 2015

SESSION LAW 2015-166

HOUSE BILL 544

AN ACT to require signs posted in the city when a city opts to enforce a county ordinance to conform to the city sign ordinances.

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

SECTION 1.  G.S. 153A‑122 reads as rewritten:

"§ 153A‑122.  Territorial jurisdiction of county ordinances.

(a)        Except as otherwise provided in this Article, the board of commissioners may make any ordinance adopted pursuant to this Article applicable to any part of the county not within a city.

(b) In addition, theThe governing board of a city may by resolution permit a county ordinance adopted pursuant to this Article to be applicable within the city. In the resolution permitting the county ordinance to be applicable within the city, the governing board of the city may specify that any signage required by the county ordinance be in compliance with city ordinances. The city may by resolution withdraw its permission to such an ordinance. If it does so, the city shall give written notice to the county of its withdrawal of permission; 30 days after the day the county receives this notice the county ordinance ceases to be applicable within the city."

SECTION 2.  This act is effective when it becomes law.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified this the 22^nd day of July, 2015.

                                                                    s/  Daniel J. Forest

                                                                         President of the Senate

                                                                    s/  Tim Moore

                                                                         Speaker of the House of Representatives

                                                                    s/  Pat McCrory

                                                                         Governor

Approved 1:31 p.m. this 23^rd day of July, 2015