VARIOUS LOCAL LAWS (NEW).

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View NCGA Bill Details2023-2024 Session
House Bill 593 (Public) Filed Monday, April 10, 2023
AN ACT TO MAKE VARIOUS CHANGES TO GENERAL LOCAL GOVERNMENT LAW.
Intro. by Gillespie.

Status: Ch. SL 2024-38 (Jul 8 2024)

SOG comments (1):

Long title change

The Senate committee substitute to the 2nd edition changed the act's long title. The previous long title was: AN ACT TO INCREASE THE PENALTY FOR EXCEEDING TANDEM TRAILER AND SEMITRAILER LENGTH LIMITATIONS ON A CERTAIN DESIGNATED ROAD IN MACON COUNTY.

Bill History:

H 593/S.L. 2024-38

Bill Summaries:

  • Summary date: Jul 9 2024 - View Summary

    AN ACT TO MAKE VARIOUS CHANGES TO GENERAL LOCAL GOVERNMENT LAW. SL 2024-38. Enacted July 8, 2024. Effective July 8, 2024, except as otherwise provided.


  • Summary date: Jun 24 2024 - View Summary

    Senate amendment to the 3rd edition makes the following changes.

    Removes proposed change to Section 12.2 of SL 2023-134 (the 2023 Appropriations Act) that would have expanded the recipients of the appropriation there to the Towns of Columbus and Tryon. (Directive to the Office of State Budget and Management [OSBM] to allocate those funds to those towns and the City of Saluda for debt repayment remains the same).

    Effective June 30, 2024, notwithstanding the committee report described in SL 2021-180 (2021 appropriations act), directs OSBM to reallocate $7 million of the grant to Duplin County for the Emergency Management Facility as follows: (1) $1.5 million to be used to construct a new Senior Resource Center and Veterans’ Services building and (2) $5.5 million to be used to construct a co-located sheriff’s office and detention center.

    Directs the State to convey all its rights, titles, and interests in the former quarry bounded by Quarry Road and the railroad tracks in Monroe, North Carolina, as described to the City of Monroe for $1. Specifies that the property is conveyed “as is” and “where is” without any warranties concerning the title to the property, the boundaries of the property, the uses to which the property may be put, zoning, local ordinances, or any physical, environmental, health, and safety conditions relating to the property. Directs that the City of Monroe will bear all costs associated with the conveyance. Exempts the conveyance from Article 7 of GS Chapter 146 (pertaining to dispositions of State property). Directs that provisions of Article 16 of GS Chapter 146 apply, except for GS 146-74 (concerning approval of conveyances). 

    Makes organizational changes.


  • Summary date: Jun 20 2024 - View Summary

    Senate committee substitute to the 2nd edition makes the following changes.

    Makes organizational changes and adds the following.

    Section 2

    Amends GS 130A-50, concerning the election and terms of office of sanitary district boards, to require a sanitary district board (board), for the purpose of electing members of the board, to adopt single-member residency districts in which only a person residing in a district is eligible as a candidate in the election for the seat apportioned to that district, but candidates must be elected at large by the qualified voters of the entire sanitary district. Requires the district boundaries to be adopted in a resolution following a public hearing. Requires the most recent federal decennial census data to be used as the basis of population for establishing the districts and requires the districts to be revised as needed after each census. Requires board members to serve staggered terms. Applies only to a sanitary district lying wholly within a county with more than 17 municipalities lying wholly within that county.

    Requires the resolution establishing the district boundaries to be adopted by December 1, 2024, and specifies that the boundaries will remain in effect until after the return of the 2030 census, at which time they must be revised.

    Section 3

    Amends SL 2023-134 by adding Columbus and Tryon to the recipients of the $2,304,878 allocation. Amends Section 4.2(h) of SL 2024-1 to require the funds that were allocated from Columbus and Tryon to be transferred to OSBM for a grant to those two towns for repayment of debt incurred for construction of a water or wastewater project. 

    Section 4

    Enacts new GS 130A-70.2 to allow a sanitary district board (board) to extend the boundaries of the district to include all of the contiguous corporate areas of any municipality adopting a resolution requesting inclusion. Requires the board to hold a public hearing as soon as practicable after receiving the resolution. Also requires establishing the new boundaries, if expanded, by resolution after the hearing. Requires the boundary change effective date, as determined by the board, to coincide with the start of a fiscal or calendar year. Requires the board to file a copy of the resolution, upon the expansion of the boundaries, and a map of the new boundaries with the county board of elections.

    Applies to any resolution from a municipality received by a board on or after January 1, 2024.

    Makes conforming changes to the act's titles.


  • Summary date: May 1 2024 - View Summary

    Senate committee substitute to the 1st edition changes the act's effective date to December 1, 2024 (was, 2023).


  • Summary date: Apr 13 2023 - View Summary

    Applicable to Macon County only, subjects a motor vehicle combination operated on US Route 64 between State Road 1533 and NC Highway 106 in Macon County that is in violation of subsection (a) or subsection (b) of GS 20-115.1 (setting out size limitation on motor vehicle combinations consisting of a truck tractor and two trailing units, and motor vehicle combinations consisting of a semitrailer of not more than 53 feet in length and a truck tractor that may be operated the state's highways) to the axle-group weight penalties under GS 20-118(e). Specifies that the penalties apply to the amount by which the motor vehicle combination Gross Vehicle Weight Rating (GVWR) exceeds 20,000 pounds. Effective December 1, 2023, and applies to offenses committed on or after that date.