GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA
1985 SESSION
CHAPTER 828
AN ACT TO AUTHORIZE THE TOWN OF HIGHLANDS TO ADOPT AND ENACT ORDINANCES REGULATING THE REMOVAL, REPLACEMENT, AND PRESERVATION OF TREES WITHIN THE TOWN OF HIGHLANDS.
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
Section 1. The Town of Highlands may adopt ordinances, only after holding public hearings, to regulate the removal of trees from public and commercially zoned private property within the Town of Highlands in order to preserve, protect, and enhance one of the most valuable natural resources of the community and to protect the health, safety, and welfare of its citizens.
Sec. 2. This act applies only to the Town of Highlands.
Sec. 3. This act is effective upon ratification.
In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 30th day of June, 1986.