S131 - Regulatory Reform Act of 2016-2017. (SL 2017-10)

Overview: S.L. 2017-10 amends State laws related to the following:

• Employment status of franchises
• Streamline mortgage notice requirements
• Clarify private drinking water well permitting requirements
• Exempt certain building code classifications from energy efficiency standards
• Wildlife Resources Commission, Division of Marine Fisheries, and Utilities Commission private identifying information
• Water and sewer billing by lessors
• Clarify recycling programs by local school boards must comply with G.S. 160A-327
• Rezoning/simultaneous comprehensive plan amendment
• Parent parcel/subdivision clarification
• Program evaluation to study nonprofit contracting
• Rename and amend the board of refrigeration examiners
• Amend definition of antique automobile
• Copies of certain public records
• Specify location of Lieutenant Governor's office
• Clarify that Department of Transportation stormwater requirements are applicable to State road construction undertaken by private parties
• Department of Transportation process revisions and reimbursement for moving certain utilities
• Amendments to general contractor licensure
• Repeal certain education testing laws
• Statute of limitations/land-use violations
• Solid waste amendments
• Motor vehicle emissions inspections
• Farriers/horse shoeing
• Department of Environmental Quality to study riparian buffers
• Eliminate outdated provision of the Coastal Area Management Act
• Repeal pasture points provision
• Eliminate reports to the Commissioner of Agriculture as to milk purchased or sold
• Prohibit certain stormwater control measures
• Exempt landscaping material from stormwater management requirements
• Amend stream mitigation requirements
• Coastal Resources Commission rules on temporary erosion control structures
• Direct the Coastal Resources Commission to amend the Sediment Criteria Rule to exempt sediment from cape shoal systems
• Division of Coastal Management to study long-term erosion rates adjacent to terminal groins
• Regulation and disposition of certain reptiles
• Provide for low-flow design alternatives for public water supply systems
• Establish North Carolina Sentinel Landscapes Committee
• Eliminate, consolidate, and amend reports to the Environmental Review Commission

This act has various effective dates. Please see the full summary for details.