GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA
SESSION 2009
SESSION LAW 2009-115
HOUSE BILL 721
AN ACT amending the charter of the town of carrboro to allow the town to adopt ordinances prohibiting Housing discrimination on the basis of familial status AND handicap.
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
SECTION 1. Section 10-1 of the Charter of the Town of Carrboro, being Chapter 476 of the 1987 Session Laws, reads as rewritten:
"Section 10-1. Housing Discrimination. The board
of aldermen may adopt ordinances designed to ensure that all housing
opportunities in the Town of Carrboro shall be equally available to all persons
without regard to race, color, religion, sex orsex, national origin.
origin, familial status, or handicap. Such ordinances may regulate
or prohibit any act, practice, activity or procedure related directly or
indirectly to the sale or rental of public or private housing that affects or
may tend to affect the availability or desirability of housing on an equal
basis to all persons, without regard to race, color, religion, sex orsex,
national origin.origin, familial status, or handicap. However,
ordinances adopted pursuant to the authority contained in this act shall not
apply to the rental of rooms or units in dwellings containing living quarters
occupied or intended to be occupied by no more than four families living
independently of each other, if the owner actually maintains and occupies one
of such living quarters as his residence. Any ordinance passed pursuant to this
authorization may be enforced by any method authorized for enforcement of
ordinances generally in G.S. 160A-175. In addition, any ordinance adopted
pursuant to this authorization may provide that any person aggrieved by any
act, practice, activity or procedure prohibited by such ordinance may seek
equitable relief in the appropriate division of the General Court of
Justice."
SECTION 2. This act becomes effective October 1, 2009.
In the General Assembly read three times and ratified this the 16th day of June, 2009.
s/ Marc Basnight
President Pro Tempore of the Senate
s/ Joe Hackney
Speaker of the House of Representatives