NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1965 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 528

HOUSE BILL 783

 

 

AN ACT TO AUTHORIZE AND EMPOWER THE GOVERNING BODY OF THE CITY OF DURHAM TO PROVIDE FOR THE ESTABLISHMENT OF ZONING REGULATIONS, RESTRICTIONS, AND BOUNDARIES, AND PUBLIC HEARINGS THEREUPON AS TO AREAS TO BE ANNEXED TO THE CORPORATE BOUNDARIES AFTER THE ADOPTION OF THE ANNEXATION ORDINANCE AND PRIOR TO ITS EFFECTIVE DATE SO THAT SUCH ZONING REGULATIONS WILL BE EFFECTIVE AS TO SUCH ANNEXED AREA SIMULTANEOUSLY WITH THE EFFECTIVE DATE OF SUCH ANNEXATION.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

 

Section 1. That the Governing Body of the City of Durham and the Planning and Zoning Commission of said city are hereby authorized and empowered, after the passage of an annexation ordinance and prior to the date upon which the territory described therein is actually annexed to said city, to initiate, hold hearings upon, adopt resolutions providing for public hearings, conduct public hearings upon such resolutions, petitions, proposals and ordinances, and the Governing Body is further empowered to enact zoning ordinances, for the determination of zone boundaries and allocation of said area into zoning classifications and districts, and the application of zoning regulations and restrictions, to be applicable to the territory described in the annexation ordinances to be annexed. But no such establishment of zone boundaries or any zoning regulations or restrictions in such annexed territory described in the annexation ordinances shall be effective until the effective date upon which said area is actually annexed to the City of Durham as provided in the annexation ordinances, but at that time such zoning regulations and restrictions and boundaries shall simultaneously become effective with such annexation.

Sec. 2. All laws and clauses of laws in conflict with this Act are hereby repealed.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 12th day of May, 1965.