S607 - Regulatory Reform Act of 2024. (SL 2024-45)

Overview: Section 23.1 of S.L. 2024-45 amends local government authority to regulate on-premises advertising signs by (i) allowing the relocation or reconstruction of a lawfully erected on-premises advertising sign within the same parcel if the square footage of the sign does not increase and the sign complies with local development regulations in place when the sign was erected and (ii) prohibiting a local government from requiring removal of a legally erected non-conforming on-premises advertising signs unless the local government pays monetary compensation to the sign owner.

Section 23.1 became effective on July 9, 2024, and applies to on-premises advertising signs removed on or after October 1, 2021. For any on-premises advertising sign removed on or after October 1, 2021, but prior to July 9, 2024, construction work on relocation in accordance with G.S. 160D-912.1(b), as enacted by this section, must commence within two years of July 9, 2024.