NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY
1979 SESSION

CHAPTER 302
HOUSE BILL 307

AN ACT TO PERMIT THE TOWN OF CARRBORO TO AUTHORIZE ITS BOARD OF ADJUSTMENT TO MAKE DECISIONS PURSUANT TO A MAJORITY VOTE AND TO COMBINE ITS ZONING AND SUBDIVISION AND OTHER RELATED ORDINANCES INTO A LAND USE CODE.

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

Section 1.  Notwithstanding the provisions of G.S. 160A-388(e) or G.S. 160A-446(d) or any other State or local act, the Board of Aldermen of the Town of Carrboro may by ordinance authorize its Board of Adjustment to decide any matter before it upon a vote of a majority of the members of the Board of Adjustment.
Sec. 2. The Board of Aldermen of the Town of Carrboro may combine into a single ordinance or unified land use code any of the ordinances that it is permitted to adopt pursuant to the authority granted in Article XIX of Chapter 160A of the North Carolina General Statutes or any local act applicable to the Town of Carrboro that deals with the subject matters contained in Article XIX of Chapter 160A of the General Statutes. The intent of this section is not to grant to the Town of Carrboro any substantive authority beyond that already contained in the Town Charter or existing enabling legislation, but merely to permit the town to exercise its existing authorization through the vehicle of a single ordinance rather than multiple ordinances.
Sec. 3. All laws and clauses of laws in conflict with this act are hereby repealed.
Sec. 4. This act is effective upon ratification.
In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 9th day of April, 1979.