GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA

1987 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 187

HOUSE BILL 765

 

AN ACT TO PERMIT REGULATION OF MARITIME FORESTS BY KITTY HAWK, KILL DEVIL HILLS, NAGS HEAD AND SOUTHERN SHORES.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

 

Section 1.  Maritime forests are a unique natural and topographical feature of Kitty Hawk, Kill Devil Hills, Nags Head, and Southern Shores that are a tourist attraction and protect the towns from the danger of flooding and erosion.  Therefore, to promote the health, safety, and general welfare of their residents, these towns may by ordinance define, prohibit, or regulate acts, omissions, or conditions that damage, destroy, or remove any maritime forest or kill, destroy, or remove any vegetation growing in any maritime forest.

Sec. 2.  This act applies only to the Towns of Kitty Hawk, Kill Devil Hills, Nags Head, and Southern Shores.

Sec. 3.  This act is effective upon ratification.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified this the 14th day of May, 1987.