NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1961 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 240

HOUSE BILL 341

 

 

AN ACT TO AMEND G.S. 160‑236 TO AUTHORIZE ESTABLISHMENT OF SECONDARY FIRE LIMITS WITHIN MUNICIPALITIES.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

 

Section 1.  G.S. 160‑236, as the same appears in the 1952 Recompiled Volume 3C of the General Statutes of North Carolina, is hereby amended by adding the following paragraph at the end thereof:

"Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the governing body of any municipality which has established primary fire limits which include the principal business portion of such municipality, is hereby authorized and may, in its discretion, establish and define one or more separate areas within the municipality as secondary fire limits, in which alterations, repairs and additions to wooden buildings and structures located therein at the time such limits are established, may be permitted under rules and regulations governing buildings in such municipality."

Sec. 2.  All laws and clauses of laws in conflict with this Act are hereby repealed.

Sec. 3.  This Act shall become effective upon its ratification.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 18th day of April, 1961.