NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1977 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 489

SENATE BILL 594

 

 

AN ACT TO AUTHORIZE THE TOWN OF SMITHFIELD TO EXTEND ITS ZONING AUTHORITY OVER WEST SMITHFIELD SANITARY DISTRICT.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

 

Section 1.  The Town of Smithfield is authorized to exercise zoning authority pursuant to Part 3, Article 19, Chapter 160A of the General Statutes, over West Smithfield Sanitary District, as now or hereafter constituted, without the approval of the Johnston County Board of Commissioners.  The zoning authority shall be exercised throughout the sanitary district in accordance with a comprehensive plan to the exclusion of all other zoning authority of any local governmental unit.

Sec. 2. The planning board or commission established by the Town of Smithfield pursuant to G.S. 160A-361 shall include three members and one alternate member to be recommended by the West Smithfield Sanitary District Board.

Sec. 3. The provisions of Part 1 and Part 3, Article 19, Chapter 160A of the General Statutes, shall be applicable to the exercise of the zoning authority except as otherwise provided by this act.

Sec. 4. This act shall become effective upon ratification.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 7th day of June, 1977.