Enacts new GS 143-214.18 to provide that unless required by federal law or an imminent threat to public health or safety, temporary rules adopted on four specified dates and the permanent rule adopted on August 1, 2000, concerning protection and maintenance of riparian buffers in the Neuse and Tar-Pamlico River Basins, do not apply to a tract of land that (1) is private property; (2) was private property before August 1, 2000, and was platted and recorded in the register of deeds in the county where the property is located; and (3) the use of the property complies with the rules and other laws (except for the specified rule adopted on August 1, 2000) applicable to that property before August 1, 2000.