LOCAL AUTHORITY/LARGE-SCALE CHICKEN FARMS.

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View NCGA Bill Details2017-2018 Session
House Bill 626 (Public) Filed Thursday, April 6, 2017
AN ACT TO PROVIDE COUNTIES AND CITIES WITH LIMITED ZONING AUTHORITY OVER CERTAIN LARGE-SCALE POULTRY FARMS.
Intro. by Blackwell.

Status: Ref to the Com on Agriculture, if favorable, State and Local Government II (House Action) (Apr 10 2017)
H 626

Bill Summaries:

  • Summary date: Apr 6 2017 - View Summary

    Enacts new GS 153A-340(b)(4) to further authorize counties to adopt zoning regulations governing poultry farms with an animal waste management system having a design capacity of 150,000 or more confined poultry, provided that the zoning regulations may not have the effect of excluding those farms from the entire zoning jurisdiction. Makes conforming changes.

    Amends GS 160A-360(k) to subject property within a municipality's extraterritorial jurisdiction that contains an agricultural operation under GS 153A-340(b)(3) (certain swine farms) or new (b)(4) to the exercise of the municipality's extraterritorial jurisdiction.

    Applies to poultry farms constructed on or after July 1, 2017.