GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA

SESSION 1991

CHAPTER 772

HOUSE BILL 1469

AN ACT TO PROVIDE THAT THE LIMITATION ON THE HEIGHT OF STRUCTURES UNDER THE COMPREHENSIVE ZONING ORDINANCE OF THE TOWN OF YAUPON BEACH MAY BE CHANGED ONLY WITH THE APPROVAL OF THE VOTERS OF THAT TOWN.

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

Section 1.  The building height standards for the Town of Yaupon Beach contained in the Town of Yaupon Beach Comprehensive Zoning Ordinance as of May 26, 1992 are adopted as an act of the General Assembly to apply to that town.  Those standards shall continue to apply unless the Town of Yaupon Beach amends or repeals the building height standards contained in the Town of Yaupon Beach Comprehensive Zoning Ordinance, by an ordinance adopted by the town council and approved in a referendum of the qualified voters of the town as provided by Section 2 of this act.

Sec. 2.  (a) The referendum may be called only by the governing body of the town.

(b)       A proposition to approve an ordinance under this section shall be printed on the ballot in substantially the following form:

"Shall the ordinance (describe the effect of the ordinance) be approved?

[ ] YES

[ ] NO."

Sec. 3.  This act applies to the Town of Yaupon Beach only.

Sec. 4.  This act is effective upon ratification.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified this the 19th day of June, 1992.

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James C. Gardner

President of the Senate

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Daniel Blue, Jr.

Speaker of the House of Representatives