GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA

1983 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 441

HOUSE BILL 865

 

AN ACT TO AUTHORIZE COUNTIES TO REGULATE DEVELOPMENT IN ESTUARINE WATERS AND PUBLIC TRUST LANDS UNDER NAVIGABLE WATERS.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

 

Section 1.  G.S. 153A-340 is amended by adding new paragraphs, at the end, to read:

"A county may regulate the development over estuarine waters and over lands covered by navigable waters owned by the State pursuant to G.S. 146-12, within the bounds of that county.

For the purpose of this section, the term 'structures' shall include floating homes."

Sec. 2.  This act is effective upon ratification.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 6th day of June, 1983.