NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1963 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 1153

HOUSE BILL 1084

 

 

AN ACT TO AMEND CHAPTER 369 OF THE SESSION LAWS OF 1949 RELATING TO AUTHORIZATION OF GOVERNING BODY OF CITIES AND INCORPORATED TOWNS TO REGULATE AND REQUIRE MINIMUM STANDARDS AND SPECIFICATIONS FOR SUBDIVISIONS OF REAL PROPERTY, AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES, BY PROVIDING THAT SUCH GOVERNING BODIES MAY REQUIRE THE INSTALLATION OF CERTAIN STREET IMPROVEMENTS AND FACILITIES AS A CONDITION TO APPROVAL OF SUCH SUBDIVISION MAPS APPLICABLE TO CITY OF DURHAM ONLY.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

 

Section 1. Chapter 369 of the Session Laws of 1949 is hereby amended by substituting a semicolon for the period at the end of the first sentence of Section 2 thereof and after such semicolon inserting the following:

"and adopt ordinances requiring that streets and public ways shall be graded, curbed and guttered, paved, drainage, sidewalks, street lights and signs installed, and water, sewer, and other utility mains and connections be installed, or such of said facilities and the extent and manner of such improvements as may be determined from time to time by said governing body to be in the public interest, and such ordinances may provide that, in lieu of the completion of such work and installations previous to the final approval of a plat or map, the governing body may authorize the filing of a bond in an amount and with surety and conditions satisfactory to it providing for and securing to said City the actual construction and installation of such improvements and utilities within a period specified by such governing body and expressed in such bond or other approved undertaking, which bond or other undertaking may be enforced by the City by all appropriate legal and equitable remedies and proceedings, all as a condition precedent to the approval of maps and plats of such subdivisions within the area referred to in Section 1 of this Act."

Sec. 2. All laws and clauses of laws in conflict with this Act are hereby repealed.

Sec. 3. This Act shall apply only to the City of Durham.

Sec. 4. This Act shall be in full force and effect from and after its ratification.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 24th day of June, 1963.