GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA
1991 SESSION
CHAPTER 471
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
Section 1. Section 5 of Chapter 426 of the 1989 Session Laws reads as rewritten:
"Sec. 5. (a) The Environmental Management Commission shall adopt water supply watershed classifications and applicable management requirements as required by G.S. 143-214.4(b) no later than 1 January 1991.
(b) The Environmental
Management Commission shall publish the proposed classification of all existing
water supply watersheds under the classifications adopted pursuant to G.S.
143-214.4(b) no later than 1 January 1991. The Environmental Management
Commission shall complete the classification of all existing water supply
watersheds no later than 1 January July 1992.
(c) Every local
government shall submit a local water supply management and protection
ordinance to the Environmental Management Commission for approval by 1 July
1992. according to the following schedule:
(1) Municipalities with a population of 5,000 or more, by 1 July 1993.
(2) Municipalities with a population of less than 5,000, by 1 October 1993.
(3) Counties, by 1 January 1994."
Sec. 2. G.S. 143-214.5 is amended by adding a new subsection to read:
"(i) Every State agency shall act in a manner consistent with the policies and purposes of this section, and shall comply with the minimum statewide water supply watershed management requirements adopted by the Commission and with all water supply watershed management and protection ordinances adopted by local governments."
Sec. 3. This act is effective upon ratification.
In the General Assembly read three times and ratified this the 1st day of July, 1991.
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James C. Gardner
President of the Senate
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Daniel Blue, Jr.
Speaker of the House of Representatives