GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA

1993 SESSION

CHAPTER 53

SENATE BILL 777

AN ACT TO REVISE THE CHARTER OF THE TOWN OF GRIFTON TO ALLOW THE TOWN TO EXERCISE EXTRATERRITORIAL LAND-USE JURISDICTION WITHIN TWO MILES OF THE TOWN'S CORPORATE LIMITS.

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

Section 1.  The Charter of the Town of Grifton, being Chapter 480 of the Session Laws of 1975, is amended by adding a new Section 8-4 to Chapter VIII to read:

"Sec. 8-4.  Extraterritorial jurisdiction.  Notwithstanding the provisions of G.S. 160A-360, the Town of Grifton may exercise the extraterritorial jurisdiction powers granted by Article 19 of Chapter 160A of the General Statutes within a defined area extending not more than two miles beyond the corporate limits."

Sec. 2.  This act is effective upon ratification.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified this the 19th day of May, 1993.

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Dennis A. Wicker

President of the Senate

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Daniel Blue, Jr.

Speaker of the House of Representatives