GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA
SESSION 2019
SESSION LAW 2019-112
SENATE BILL 378
AN ACT to change when public hearings are required for economic development expenditures.
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
SECTION 1. G.S. 158‑7.1(c) reads as rewritten:
"(c) Public Hearing. –
Any appropriation or expenditure for economic development purposes pursuant
to this section must be approved by the county or city governing body after a
public hearing. The hearing, which may be part of the public hearing
on the annual budget pursuant to G.S. 159‑12 if the appropriation or
expenditure is included in the annual budget. If the appropriation or
expenditure is not included in the annual budget, the county or city shall publish
hold at least one public hearing, publishing notice of the public
hearing at least 10 days before the public hearing is held. If the
appropriation or expenditure is for the acquisition of an interest in real
property, the notice shall describe the interest to be acquired, the proposed
acquisition cost of such interest, the governing body's intention to approve
the acquisition, the source of funding for the acquisition and such other
information needed to reasonably describe the acquisition. If the appropriation
or expenditure is for the improvement of privately owned property by site
preparation or by the extension of water and sewer lines to the property, the
notice shall describe the improvements to be made, the proposed cost of making
the improvements, the source of funding for the improvements, the public
benefit to be derived from making the improvements, and any other information
needed to reasonably describe the improvements and their purpose."
SECTION 2. This act is effective when it becomes law and applies to appropriations and expenditures approved on or after that date.
In the General Assembly read three times and ratified this the 28th day of June, 2019.
s/ Philip E. Berger
President Pro Tempore of the Senate
s/ Sarah Stevens
Speaker Pro Tempore of the House of Representatives
s/ Roy Cooper
Governor
Approved 1:42 p.m. this 11th day of July, 2019