NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1979 SESSION

CHAPTER 314

HOUSE BILL 738

AN ACT ALLOWING ORANGE COUNTY TO ENACT ANIMAL CONTROL ORDINANCES.

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

Section 1.  Sections 1 through 5 and Section 8, of Chapter 367, Session Laws of 1953 are repealed.

Sec. 2. Article 5 of Chapter 67 of the General Statutes shall not apply to Orange County.

Sec. 3. A county may, by ordinance, under the general ordinance making power of G.S. 153A-121, provide for animal protection and control within the county. Different animal control regulations may be established in the ordinance for different districts by the Board of County Commissioners. These districts may be any shape and area and in any number that the Board of County Commissioners considers best suited to carry out the purposes of the animal control ordinance.

Sec. 4. Section 3 of this act applies to Orange County only.

Sec. 5. This act is effective upon ratification.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 9th day of April, 1979.