GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA

1997 SESSION

S.L. 1997-449

HOUSE BILL 496

AN ACT TO GRANT AUTHORITY TO THE MUNICIPALITIES LOCATED IN LEE COUNTY TO ADDRESS ABANDONED STRUCTURES IN THE SAME MANNER AS MUNICIPALITIES IN COUNTIES WITH A POPULATION OF OVER ONE HUNDRED SIXTY-THREE THOUSAND.

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

Section 1.  Section 2 of Chapter 733 of the 1995 Session Laws, as amended by S.L. 1997-101 and Ratified House Bill 699, 1997 Regular Session, reads as rewritten:

"Sec. 2.  This act applies to the Cities of Greenville, Lumberton, and Roanoke Rapids Rapids, to the municipalities in Lee County, and the Towns of Bethel, Farmville, and Newport only."

Section 2.  This act is effective when it becomes law.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified this the 28th day of August, 1997.

s/   Marc Basnight

President Pro Tempore of the Senate

s/   Harold J. Brubaker

Speaker of the House of Representatives