GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA
SESSION 2009
SESSION LAW 2009-115
HOUSE BILL 721
AN ACT amending the charter of the town of carrboro to allow the town to adopt ordinances prohibiting Housing discrimination on the basis of familial status AND handicap.
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
SECTION 1. Section 10-1 of the Charter of the Town of Carrboro, being Chapter 476 of the 1987 Session Laws, reads as rewritten:
"Section 10-1. Housing
Discrimination. The board of aldermen may adopt ordinances designed to
ensure that all housing opportunities in the Town of Carrboro shall be equally
available to all persons without regard to race, color, religion, sex orsex,
national origin. origin, familial status, or handicap. Such
ordinances may regulate or prohibit any act, practice, activity or procedure
related directly or indirectly to the sale or rental of public or private
housing that affects or may tend to affect the availability or desirability of
housing on an equal basis to all persons, without regard to race, color,
religion, sex orsex, national origin.origin, familial
status, or handicap. However, ordinances adopted pursuant to the authority
contained in this act shall not apply to the rental of rooms or units in
dwellings containing living quarters occupied or intended to be occupied by no
more than four families living independently of each other, if the owner
actually maintains and occupies one of such living quarters as his residence.
Any ordinance passed pursuant to this authorization may be enforced by any
method authorized for enforcement of ordinances generally in G.S. 160A-175.
In addition, any ordinance adopted pursuant to this authorization may provide
that any person aggrieved by any act, practice, activity or procedure
prohibited by such ordinance may seek equitable relief in the appropriate
division of the General Court of Justice."
SECTION 2. This act becomes effective October 1, 2009.
In the General Assembly read three times and ratified this the 16th day of June, 2009.
s/ Marc Basnight
President Pro Tempore of the Senate
s/ Joe Hackney
Speaker of the House of Representatives