GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA

SESSION 1999

 

 

SESSION LAW 1999-16

SENATE BILL 300

 

 

AN ACT REPEALING THE TOWN OF CALABASH'S LIMITATIONS ON THE HEIGHT OF BUILDINGS, EXTENDING THE TOWN'S EXTRATERRITORIAL JURISDICTION, INCREASING THE NUMBER OF TOWN COMMISSIONERS, AND STAGGERING THE COMMISSIONERS' TERMS.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

 

Section 1.  Chapter 621 of the 1995 Session Laws is repealed.

Section 2.  In addition to any areas where the Town of Calabash exercises extraterritorial jurisdiction under Article 19 of Chapter 160A of the General Statutes, the Town shall have extraterritorial jurisdiction under that Article in the following described area:

From that portion of the existing extraterritorial jurisdiction line that bisects the Ocean Harbour Golf Course in a southeasterly manner through the Ocean Harbour Estates subdivision to the middle of the Intracoastal Waterway.

Section 3.  Section 1.(f) of S.L. 1998-75 reads as rewritten:

"(f)      Beginning with the organizational meeting after the 1999 municipal election, the Board of Commissioners of the Town of Calabash consists of four members. governing body of the Town of Calabash shall consist of the Town Board of Commissioners and the Mayor. The Town Board of Commissioners has five members. The Commissioners and the Mayor shall be elected to four-year terms by the qualified voters of the entire Town. In 1999, the two persons receiving the highest number of votes are elected to four-year terms and the three persons receiving the next highest number of votes are elected to two-year terms. In 2001, and quadrennially thereafter, three persons are elected to four-year terms.  In 2003, and quadrennially thereafter, two persons are elected to four-year terms."

Section 4.  This act is effective when it becomes law.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified this the 6th day of April, 1999.

 

s/   Marc Basnight

President Pro Tempore of the Senate

 

 

s/   James B. Black

Speaker of the House of Representatives