AN ACT Authorizing the county of cabarrus to use electronic means to provide public notice in lieu of publication.

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

SECTION 1. A county may adopt ordinances providing that legal notice of public hearings may be published through electronic means in lieu of publication in any newspaper.  The publication may be on the county's Internet site or by any other means. Ordinances adopted pursuant to this section shall not supersede any State law that requires notice by mail to certain classes of persons or the posting of signs on certain property, nor shall there be any alteration of the publication schedule required by State law.
SECTION 2.  This act applies to Cabarrus County only.
SECTION 3.  This act is effective when it becomes law.
In the General Assembly read three times and ratified this the 27th day of May, 2003.

	s/	 Marc Basnight
	 President Pro Tempore of the Senate

	s/	 Richard T. Morgan
	 Speaker of the House of Representatives