NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1961 SESSION

CHAPTER 180

SENATE BILL 121

AN ACT TO AMEND GS 160-227.1 AUTHORIZING THE TOWN OF RAEFORD TO REGULATE THE PLATTING AND RECORDING OF SUBDIVISIONS OF LAND AND REQUIRING THE APPOINTMENT OF ADDITIONAL MEMBERS TO THE RAEFORD PLANNING BOARD PRIOR TO EXERCISING SUCH AUTHORITY.

The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

Section 1. G. S. 160-227.1, as the same appears in the 1959 Cumulative Supplement to Volume 3C of the North Carolina General Statutes, is hereby amended by inserting, following the comma after the word "Hoke" and immediately preceding the word "Johnston", the words and punctuation "except for the Town of Raeford,".

Sec. 2. Provided, that prior to exercising the authority granted to the Town of Raeford in Hoke County under G. S. 160-226 through G. S. 160-227 of the North Carolina General Statutes as authorized by Section 1 of this Act, the governing body of the Town of Raeford shall increase the membership of the Raeford Planning Board as follows: Within ninety (90) days after the date of receipt of a written request from the governing body of the Town of Raeford, the Board of County Commissioners of Hoke County shall name and appoint five (5) additional members to the Town of Raeford Planning Board. Such members appointed by the county board of commissioners shall own real property within the area outside of and beyond the corporate boundaries of the Town of Raeford as may be now or hereafter fixed for a distance of one (1) mile in all directions. Such additional members shall be appointed for terms of office as the governing body of the Town of Raeford shall by ordinance determine: Provided, that no term of office so established shall be for less than one (1) nor more than three (3) years in duration and such terms of office may be staggered. Members of the Raeford Planning Board appointed by the board of county commissioners shall have equal rights, privileges and duties with other members of the planning board in all matters pertaining to the regulation of any area outside the corporate boundaries of the Town of Raeford and within the jurisdiction of the planning board as authorized by this Act or other special or general statute applicable to the Town of Raeford.

Sec. 3. All laws and clauses of laws in conflict with this Act are hereby repealed to the extent of such conflict.

Sec. 4. This Act shall apply only to the Town of Raeford in Hoke County.

Sec. 5. 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 7th day of April, 1961.