North Carolina General Statutes Chapter 160A Cities and Towns

Article 1 - Definitions and Statutory Construction.

N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-1. Application and meaning of terms
Unless otherwise specifically provided, or unless otherwise clearly required by the context, the words and phrases defined in this section shall have the meaning...
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-2. Effect upon prior laws
Nothing in this Chapter shall repeal or amend any city charter in effect as of January 1, 1972, or any portion thereof, unless this...
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-3. General laws supplementary to charters
(a) When a procedure that purports to prescribe all acts necessary for the performance or execution of any power, duty, function, privilege, or immunity...
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-4. Broad construction
It is the policy of the General Assembly that the cities of this State should have adequate authority to execute the powers, duties, privileges,...
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-4.1. Notice of new fees and fee increases; public comment period
(a) A city shall provide notice to interested parties of the imposition of or increase in fees or charges applicable solely to the construction...
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-5. Statutory references deemed amended to conform to Chapter
Whenever a reference is made in another portion of the General Statutes or any local act, or any city ordinance, resolution, or order, to...

Article 1A - Municipal Board of Control.

N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-6 through 160A-10. Repealed by Session Laws 1981 (Regular Session, 1982), c. 1191, s. 63

Article 2 - General Corporate Powers.

N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-11. Corporate powers
The inhabitants of each city heretofore or hereafter incorporated by act of the General Assembly or by the Municipal Board of Control shall be...
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-12. Exercise of corporate power
All powers, functions, rights, privileges, and immunities of the corporation shall be exercised by the city council and carried into execution as provided by...
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-13 through 160A-15. Reserved for future codification purposes

Article 3 - Contracts.

N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-16. Contracts to be in writing; exception
All contracts made by or on behalf of a city shall be in writing. A contract made in violation of this section shall be...
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-17. Continuing contracts
A city is authorized to enter into continuing contracts, some portion or all of which are to be performed in ensuing fiscal years. Sufficient...
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-17.1. Grants from other governments
(a) Federal and State. - The governing body of any city or county is hereby authorized to make contracts for and to accept grants-in-aid...
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-18. Certain deeds validated
(a) All deeds made, executed, and delivered by any city before July 1, 1970, for a good and valuable consideration are hereby in all...
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-19. Leases
A city is authorized to lease as lessee, with or without option to purchase, any real or personal property for any authorized public purpose....
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-20. Security interests
(a) Purchase. - A unit of local government may purchase, or finance or refinance the purchase of, real or personal property by installment contracts...
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-20.1. Contracts with private entities; contractors must use E-Verify
(a) Authority. - A city may contract with and appropriate money to any person, association, or corporation, in order to carry out any public...

Article 4 - Corporate Limits.

N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-21. Existing boundaries
The boundaries of each city shall be those specified in its charter with any alterations that are made from time to time in the...
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-22. Map of corporate limits
The current city boundaries shall at all times be drawn on a map, or set out in a written description, or shown by a...
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-23. District map; reapportionment
(a) If the city is divided into electoral districts for the purpose of electing the members of the council, the map or description required...
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-23.1. Special rules for redistricting after a federal decennial census
(a) As soon as possible after receipt of federal decennial census information, the council of any city which elects the members of its governing...

Article 4A - Extension of Corporate Limits.

N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-24 through 160A-28. Repealed by Session Laws 1983, c. 636, s. 26
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-29. Map of annexed area, copy of ordinance and election results recorded in the office of register of deeds
Whenever the limits of any municipal corporation are enlarged, in accordance with the provisions of this Article, it shall be the duty of the...
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-30. Surveys of proposed new areas
The governing bodies of the cities and towns after five days' written notice to the owner of record or persons in possession of the...
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-31. Annexation by petition
(a) The governing board of any municipality may annex by ordinance any area contiguous to its boundaries upon presentation to the governing board of...
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-31.1. Assumption of debt
(a) If the city has annexed under this Part any area which is served by a rural fire department and which is in: (1)...
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-32. Repealed by Session Laws 1983, c. 636, s. 26.1, effective June 29, 1983
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-33. Repealed by Session Laws 2011-396, s. 1, effective July 1, 2011. For applicability, see editor's note
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-34. Repealed by Session Laws 2011-396, s. 1, effective July 1, 2011. For applicability, see editor's note
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-35. Repealed by Session Laws 2011-396, s. 1, effective July 1, 2011. For applicability, see editor's note
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-35.1. Repealed by Session Laws 2011-396, s. 1, effective July 1, 2011. For applicability, see editor's note
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-36. Repealed by Session Laws 2011-396, s. 1, effective July 1, 2011. For applicability, see editor's note
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-37. Repealed by Session Laws 2011-396, s. 1, effective July 1, 2011. For applicability, see editor's note
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-37.1. Repealed by Session Laws 2011-396, s. 1, effective July 1, 2011. For applicability, see editor's note
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-37.2. Repealed by Session Laws 2011-396, s. 1, effective July 1, 2011. For applicability, see editor's note
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-37.3. Repealed by Session Laws 2011-396, s. 1, effective July 1, 2011. For applicability, see editor's note
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-38. Repealed by Session Laws 2011-396, s. 1, effective July 1, 2011. For applicability, see editor's note
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-39. Repealed by Session Laws 2011-396, s. 1, effective July 1, 2011. For applicability, see editor's note
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-40. Repealed by Session Laws 2011-396, s. 1, effective July 1, 2011. For applicability, see editor's note
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-41. Repealed by Session Laws 2011-396, s. 1, effective July 1, 2011. For applicability, see editor's note
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-42. Repealed by Session Laws 2011-396, s. 1, effective July 1, 2011. For applicability, see editor's note
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-43 through 160A-44. Repealed by Session Laws 1983, c. 636, s. 27, effective June 29, 1983
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-45. Repealed by Session Laws 2011-396, s. 7, effective July 1, 2011. For applicability, see editor's note
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-46. Repealed by Session Laws 2011-396, s. 7, effective July 1, 2011. For applicability, see editor's note
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-47. Repealed by Session Laws 2011-396, s. 7, effective July 1, 2011. For applicability, see editor's note
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-47.1. Repealed by Session Laws 2011-396, s. 7, effective July 1, 2011. For applicability, see editor's note
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-48. Repealed by Session Laws 2011-396, s. 7, effective July 1, 2011. For applicability, see editor's note
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-49. Repealed by Session Laws 2011-396, s. 7, effective July 1, 2011. For applicability, see editor's note
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-49.1. Recodified to G.S. 160A-58.57 by Session Laws 2011-396, s. 2, effective July 1, 2011
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-49.2. Recodified to G.S. 160A-58.58 by Session Laws 2011-396, s. 3, effective July 1, 2011
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-49.3. Recodified to G.S. 160A-58.59 by Session Laws 2011-396, s. 4, effective July 1, 2011
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-50. Repealed by Session Laws 2011-396, s. 7, effective July 1, 2011. For applicability, see editor's note
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-51. Recodified to G.S. 160A-58.61 by Session Laws 2011-396, s. 5, effective July 1, 2011
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-52. Recodified to G.S. 160A-58.62 by Session Laws 2011-396, s. 6, effective July 1, 2011
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-53. Repealed by Session Laws 2011-396, s. 7, effective July 1, 2011. For applicability, see editor's note
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-54. Repealed by Session Laws 2011-396, s. 7, effective July 1, 2011. For applicability, see editor's note
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-55 through 160A-56. Repealed by Session Laws 1983, c. 636, s. 27, effective June 29, 1983
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-57. Reserved for future codification purposes
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-58. Definitions
The words and phrases defined in this section have the meanings indicated when used in this Part unless the context clearly requires another meaning:...
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-58.1. Petition for annexation; standards
(a) Upon receipt of a valid petition signed by all of the owners of real property in the area described therein, a city may...
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-58.2. Public hearing
Upon receipt of a petition for annexation under this Part, the city council shall cause the city clerk to investigate the petition, and to...
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-58.2A. Assumption of debt
(a) If the city has annexed under this Part any area which is served by a rural fire department and which is in: (1)...
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-58.3. Annexed area subject to city taxes and debts
From and after the effective date of the annexation ordinance, the annexed area and its citizens and property are subject to all debts, laws,...
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-58.4. Extraterritorial powers
Satellite corporate limits shall not be considered a part of the city's corporate limits for the purposes of extraterritorial land-use regulation pursuant to G.S....
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-58.5. Special rates for water, sewer and other enterprises
For the purposes of G.S. 160A-314, provision of public enterprise services within satellite corporate limits shall be considered provision of service for special classes...
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-58.6. Transition from satellite to primary corporate limits
An area annexed pursuant to this Part ceases to constitute satellite corporate limits and becomes a part of the primary corporate limits of a...
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-58.7. Annexation of municipal property
(a) The city council may initiate annexation of property not contiguous to the primary corporate limits and owned by the city by adopting a...
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-58.8. Recording and Reporting
Annexations made under this part shall be recorded and reported in the same manner as under G.S. 160A-29. (1987, c. 879, s. 4.)
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-58.9. Effective date of certain annexation ordinances adopted from January 1, 1987, to August 3, 1987
(a) In the case of any annexation ordinance adopted during the period beginning January 1, 1987, and ending on August 3, 1987, if the...
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-58.9A. Effective date of certain annexation ordinances adopted under Article 4A of Chapter 160A
(a) No annexation ordinance adopted under Article 4A of Chapter 160A of the General Statutes may become effective during the period beginning November 1,...
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-58.10. Tax of newly annexed territory
(a) Applicability of Section. - Real and personal property in territory annexed pursuant to this Article is subject to municipal taxes as provided in...
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-58.11 through 160A-58.20. Reserved for future codification purposes
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-58.21. Purpose
It is the purpose of this Part to authorize cities to enter into binding agreements concerning future annexation in order to enhance orderly planning...
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-58.22. Definitions
The words defined in this section shall have the meanings indicated when used in this Part: (1) "Agreement" means any written agreement authorized by...
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-58.23. Annexation agreements authorized
Two or more cities may enter into agreements in order to designate one or more areas which are not subject to annexation by one...
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-58.24. Contents of agreements; procedure
(a) The agreement shall: (1) State the duration of the agreement. (2) Describe clearly the area or areas subject to the agreement. The boundaries...
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-58.25. Effect of agreement
From and after the effective date of an agreement, no participating city may adopt an annexation ordinance as to all or any portion of...
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-58.26. Part grants no annexation authority
Nothing in this Part shall be construed to authorize the annexation of any area which is not otherwise subject to annexation under applicable law....
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-58.27. Relief
(a) Each provision of an agreement shall be binding upon the respective parties. Not later than 30 days following the passage of an annexation...
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-58.28. Effect on prior local acts
This Part does not affect Chapter 953, Session Laws of 1983, Chapter 847, Session Laws of 1985 (1986 Regular Session), or Chapters 204, 233,...
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-58.29. Reserved for future codification purposes
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-58.30. Reserved for future codification purposes
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-58.31. Reserved for future codification purposes
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-58.32. Reserved for future codification purposes
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-58.33. Reserved for future codification purposes
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-58.34. Reserved for future codification purposes
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-58.35. Reserved for future codification purposes
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-58.36. Reserved for future codification purposes
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-58.37. Reserved for future codification purposes
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-58.38. Reserved for future codification purposes
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-58.39. Reserved for future codification purposes
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-58.40. Reserved for future codification purposes
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-58.41. Reserved for future codification purposes
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-58.42. Reserved for future codification purposes
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-58.43. Reserved for future codification purposes
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-58.44. Reserved for future codification purposes
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-58.45. Reserved for future codification purposes
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-58.46. Reserved for future codification purposes
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-58.47. Reserved for future codification purposes
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-58.48. Reserved for future codification purposes
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-58.49. Reserved for future codification purposes
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-58.50. Declaration of policy
It is hereby declared as a matter of State policy: (1) That sound urban development is essential to the continued economic development of North...
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-58.51. Definitions
As used in this Part, the following definitions apply: (1) Contiguous area. - Any area which, at the time annexation procedures are initiated, either...
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-58.52. Authority to annex
The governing board of any municipality may extend the corporate limits of such municipality under the procedure set forth in this Part. (2011-396, s.
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-58.53. Prerequisites to annexation
A municipality exercising authority under this Part shall make plans for the extension of services to the area proposed to be annexed and shall,...
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-58.54. Character of area to be annexed
(a) A municipal governing board may extend the municipal corporate limits to include any area that meets all of the following criteria: (1) It...
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-58.55. Procedure for annexation
(a) Resolution of Consideration. - Any municipal governing board desiring to annex territory under the provisions of this Part shall first pass a resolution...
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-58.56. Provision of water and sewer service
(a) The municipality shall provide water and sewer service to the annexed area as required by plans for extension under G.S. 160A-58.53(3) within three...
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-58.57. Contract with rural fire department
(a) If the area to be annexed described in a resolution of intent passed under G.S. 160A-58.55(c) includes an area in an insurance district...
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-58.58. Assumption of debt
(a) If the city has annexed any area which is served by a rural fire department and which is in an insurance district defined...
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-58.59. Contract with private solid waste collection firms
(a) If the area to be annexed described in a resolution of intent passed under G.S. 160A-58.55(c) includes an area where a firm (i)...
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-58.60. Appeal
(a) Within 60 days following the adoption of the annexation ordinance, any property owner of real property located within the area described in the...
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-58.61. Annexation recorded
Whenever the limits of a municipality are enlarged in accordance with the provisions of this Part, it shall be the duty of the mayor...
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-58.62. Authorized expenditures
Municipalities initiating annexations under the provisions of this Part are authorized to make expenditures for surveys required to describe the property under consideration or...
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-58.63. Population and land estimates
In determining population and degree of land subdivision for purposes of meeting the requirements of G.S. 160A-58.54, the municipality shall use methods calculated to...
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-58.64. Referendum prior to involuntary annexation ordinance
(a) After the adoption of the resolution of intent under this Part, the municipality shall place the question of annexation on the ballot. The...
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-58.65. Reserved for future codification purposes
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-58.66. Reserved for future codification purposes
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-58.67. Reserved for future codification purposes
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-58.68. Reserved for future codification purposes
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-58.69. Reserved for future codification purposes
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-58.70. Reserved for future codification purposes
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-58.71. Reserved for future codification purposes
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-58.72. Reserved for future codification purposes
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-58.73. Reserved for future codification purposes
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-58.74. Reserved for future codification purposes
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-58.75. Reserved for future codification purposes
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-58.76. Reserved for future codification purposes
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-58.77. Reserved for future codification purposes
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-58.78. Reserved for future codification purposes
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-58.79. Reserved for future codification purposes
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-58.80. Reserved for future codification purposes
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-58.81. Reserved for future codification purposes
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-58.82. Reserved for future codification purposes
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-58.83. Reserved for future codification purposes
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-58.84. Reserved for future codification purposes
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-58.85. Reserved for future codification purposes
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-58.86. Reserved for future codification purposes
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-58.87. Reserved for future codification purposes
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-58.88. Reserved for future codification purposes
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-58.89. Reserved for future codification purposes
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-58.90. Recording and Reporting
(a) Annexations made under this Article shall be recorded and reported in the same manner as under G.S. 160A-29. (b) To be enforceable, any...

Article 5 - Form of Government.

N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-59. Qualifications for elective office
All city officers elected by the people shall possess the qualifications set out in Article VI of the Constitution. In addition, when the city...
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-60. Qualifications for appointive office
Residence within a city shall not be a qualification for or prerequisite to appointment to any city office not filled by election of the...
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-61. Oath of office
Every person elected by the people or appointed to any city office shall, before entering upon the duties of the office, take and subscribe...
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-62. Officers to hold over until successors qualified
All city officers, whether elected or appointed, shall continue to hold office until their successors are chosen and qualified. This section shall not apply...
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-63. Vacancies
A vacancy that occurs in an elective office of a city shall be filled by appointment of the city council. If the term of...
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-64. Compensation of mayor and council
(a) The council may fix its own compensation and the compensation of the mayor and any other elected officers of the city by adoption...
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-66. Composition of council
Unless otherwise provided by its charter, each city shall be governed by a mayor and a council of three members, who shall be elected...
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-67. General powers of mayor and council
Except as otherwise provided by law, the government and general management of the city shall be vested in the council. The powers and duties...
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-68. Organizational meeting of council
(a) The council may fix the date and time of its organizational meeting. The organizational meeting may be held at any time after the...
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-69. Mayor to preside over council
The mayor shall preside at all council meetings, but shall have the right to vote only when there are equal numbers of votes in...
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-70. Mayor pro tempore; disability of mayor
At the organizational meeting, the council shall elect from among its members a mayor pro tempore to serve at the pleasure of the council....
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-71. Regular and special meetings; recessed and adjourned meetings; procedure
(a) The council shall fix the time and place for its regular meetings. If no action has been taken fixing the time and place...
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-72. Minutes to be kept; ayes and noes
Full and accurate minutes of the council proceedings shall be kept, and shall be open to the inspection of the public. The results of...
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-73. Repealed by Session Laws 1971, c. 896, s. 16
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-74. Quorum
A majority of the actual membership of the council plus the mayor, excluding vacant seats, shall constitute a quorum. A member who has withdrawn...
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-75. Voting
No member shall be excused from voting except upon matters involving the consideration of the member's own financial interest or official conduct or on...
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-76. Franchises; technical ordinances
(a) No ordinance making a grant, renewal, extension, or amendment of any franchise shall be finally adopted until it has been passed at two...
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-77. Code of ordinances
(a) Not later than July 1, 1974, each city having a population of 5,000 or more shall adopt and issue a code of its...
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-78. Ordinance book
Effective January 1, 1972, each city shall file a true copy of each ordinance adopted on or after January 1, 1972, in an ordinance...
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-79. Pleading and proving city ordinances
(a) In all civil and criminal cases a city ordinance that has been codified in a code of ordinances adopted and issued in compliance...
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-80. Power of investigation; subpoena power
(a) The council shall have power to investigate the affairs of the city, and for that purpose may subpoena witnesses, administer oaths, and compel...
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-81. Conduct of public hearings
Public hearings may be held at any place within the city or within the county in which the city is located. The council may...
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-81.1. Public comment period during regular meetings
The council shall provide at least one period for public comment per month at a regular meeting of the council. The council may adopt...
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-82. Applicability of Part
Nothing in this Part, except G.S. 160A-77, 160A-78 and 160A-79, shall be construed to repeal any portion of any city charter inconsistent with anything...
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-83. Reserved for future codification purposes
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-84. Reserved for future codification purposes
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-85. Reserved for future codification purposes
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-86. Local governing boards' code of ethics
(a) Governing boards of cities, counties, local boards of education, unified governments, sanitary districts, and consolidated city-counties shall adopt a resolution or policy containing...
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-87. Ethics education program required
(a) All members of governing boards of cities, counties, local boards of education, unified governments, sanitary districts, and consolidated city-counties shall receive a minimum...
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-88. Reserved for future codification purposes
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-89. Reserved for future codification purposes
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-90. Reserved for future codification purposes
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-91. Reserved for future codification purposes
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-92. Reserved for future codification purposes
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-93. Reserved for future codification purposes
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-94. Reserved for future codification purposes
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-95. Reserved for future codification purposes
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-96. Reserved for future codification purposes
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-97. Reserved for future codification purposes
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-98. Reserved for future codification purposes
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-99. Reserved for future codification purposes
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-100. Reserved for future codification purposes
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-101. Optional forms
Any city may change its name or alter its form of government by adopting any one or combination of the options prescribed by this...
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-102. Amendment by ordinance
By following the procedure set out in this section, the council may amend the city charter by ordinance to implement any of the optional...
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-103. Referendum on charter amendments by ordinance
An ordinance adopted under G.S. 160A-102 that is not made effective upon approval by a vote of the people shall be subject to a...
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-104. Initiative petitions for charter amendments
The people may initiate a referendum on proposed charter amendments. An initiative petition shall bear the signatures and resident addresses of a number of...
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-105. Submission of propositions to voters; form of ballot
A proposition to approve an ordinance or petition shall be printed on the ballot in substantially the following form: "Shall the ordinance (describe the...
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-106. Amendment of charter provisions dependent on form of government
The authority conferred by this Article to amend charter provisions within the options set out in G.S. 160A-101 also includes authority to amend other...
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-107. Plan to continue for two years
Charter amendments adopted as provided in this Article shall continue in force for at least two years after the beginning of the term of...
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-108. Municipal officers to carry out plan
It shall be the duty of the mayor, the council, the city clerk, and other city officials in office, and all boards of election...
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-109. Effective date
The council may submit new charter amendments proposed under this Article at any regular or special municipal election, or at a special election called...
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-110. Charters to remain in force
The charter of any city that adopts a new form of government as provided in this Article shall continue in full force and effect...
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-111. Filing certified true copies of charter amendments
The city clerk shall file a certified true copy of any charter amendment adopted under this Part with the Secretary of State and the...
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-112 through 160A-115. Reserved for future codification purposes

Article 6 - Elections.

N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-116 through 160A-127. Repealed by Session Laws 1971, c. 1076, s. 2
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-128 through 160A-145. Reserved for future codification purposes

Article 7 - Administrative Offices.

N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-146. Council to organize city government
The council may create, change, abolish, and consolidate offices, positions, departments, boards, commissions, and agencies of the city government and generally organize and reorganize...
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-147. Appointment of city manager; dual office holding
(a) In cities whose charters provide for the council-manager form of government, the council shall appoint a city manager to serve at its pleasure....
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-148. Powers and duties of manager
The manager shall be the chief administrator of the city. He shall be responsible to the council for administering all municipal affairs placed in...
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-149. Acting city manager
By letter filed with the city clerk, the manager may designate, subject to the approval of the council, a qualified person to exercise the...
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-150. Interim city manager
When the position of city manager is vacant, the council shall designate a qualified person to exercise the powers and perform the duties of...
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-151. Mayor and councilmen ineligible to serve or act as manager
Neither the mayor nor any member of the council shall be eligible for appointment as manager or acting or interim manager. (1971, c. 698,...
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-152. Applicability of Part
This Part shall apply only to those cities having the council-manager form of government. If the powers and duties of a city manager set...
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-153 through 160A-154. Reserved for future codification purposes
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-155. Council to provide for administration in mayor-council cities
The council shall appoint, suspend, and remove the heads of all city departments, and all other city employees; provided, the council may delegate to...
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-156. Acting department heads
By letter filed with the city clerk, the head of any department may designate, subject to the approval of the council, a qualified person...
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-157. Interim department heads
When the position of head of any department is vacant, the council may designate a qualified person to exercise the powers and perform the...
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-158. Mayor and councilmen ineligible to serve or act as heads of departments
Neither the mayor nor any member of the council shall be eligible for appointment as head of any city department or as acting or...
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-159. Applicability of Part
This Part shall apply only to those cities having the mayor-council form of government. (1971, c. 698, s. 1.)
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-160 through 160A-161. Reserved for future codification purposes
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-162. Compensation
(a) The council shall fix or approve the schedule of pay, expense allowances, and other compensation of all city employees, and may adopt position...
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-163. Retirement benefits
(a) The council may provide for enrolling city employees in the Local Governmental Employees' Retirement System, the Law-Enforcement Officers' Benefit and Relief Fund, the...
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-164. Personnel rules
The council may adopt or provide for rules and regulations or ordinances concerning but not limited to annual leave, sick leave, special leave with...
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-164.1. Smallpox vaccination policy (see editor's note on condition precedent)
All municipalities that employ firefighters, police officers, paramedics, or other first responders shall, not later than 90 days after this section becomes law, enact...
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-164.2. Criminal history record check of employees permitted
The council may adopt or provide for rules and regulations or ordinances concerning a requirement that any applicant for employment be subject to a...
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-165. Personnel board
The council may establish a personnel board with authority to administer tests designed to determine the merit and fitness of candidates for appointment or...
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-166. Participation in Social Security Act
The council may take any action necessary to allow city employees to participate fully in benefits provided by the federal Social Security Act. (1949,...
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-167. Defense of employees and officers; payment of judgments
(a) Upon request made by or in behalf of any member or former member of the governing body of any authority, or any city,...
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-168. Privacy of employee personnel records
(a) Notwithstanding the provisions of G.S. 132-6 or any other general law or local act concerning access to public records, personnel files of employees,...
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-169. City employee political activity
(a) Purpose. The purpose of this section is to ensure that city employees are not subjected to political or partisan coercion while performing their...
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-169.1. Municipality verification of employee work authorization
(a) Municipalities Must Use E-Verify. - Each municipality shall register and participate in E-Verify to verify the work authorization of new employees hired to...
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-170. Reserved for future codification purposes
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-171. City clerk; duties
There shall be a city clerk who shall give notice of meetings of the council, keep a journal of the proceedings of the council,...
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-172. Deputy clerk
The council may provide for a deputy city clerk who shall have full authority to exercise and perform any of the powers and duties...
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-173. City attorney; appointment and duties
The council shall appoint a city attorney to serve at its pleasure and to be its legal adviser. (1971, c. 698, s. 1.)

Article 8 - Delegation and Exercise of the General Police Power.

N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-174. General ordinance-making power
(a) A city may by ordinance define, prohibit, regulate, or abate acts, omissions, or conditions, detrimental to the health, safety, or welfare of its...
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-175. Enforcement of ordinances
(a) A city shall have power to impose fines and penalties for violation of its ordinances, and may secure injunctions and abatement orders to...
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-176. Ordinances effective on city property outside limits
Any city ordinance may be made effective on and to property and rights-of-way belonging to the city and located outside the corporate limits. (1917,...
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-176.1. Ordinances effective in Atlantic Ocean
(a) A city may adopt ordinances to regulate and control swimming, surfing and littering in the Atlantic Ocean adjacent to that portion of the...
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-176.2. Ordinances effective in Atlantic Ocean
(a) A city may adopt ordinances to regulate and control swimming, personal watercraft operation, surfing and littering in the Atlantic Ocean and other waterways...
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-177. Enumeration not exclusive
The enumeration in this Article or other portions of this Chapter of specific powers to regulate, restrict or prohibit acts, omissions, and conditions shall...
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-178. Regulation of solicitation campaigns, flea markets and itinerant merchants
A city may by ordinance regulate, restrict or prohibit the solicitation of contributions from the public for any charitable or eleemosynary purpose, and also...
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-179. Regulation of begging
A city may by ordinance prohibit or regulate begging or otherwise canvassing the public for contributions for the private benefit of the solicitor or...
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-180. Regulation of aircraft overflights
A city may by ordinance regulate the operation of aircraft over the city. (1971, c. 698, s. 1.)
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-181. Regulation of places of amusement
A city may by ordinance regulate places of amusement and entertainment, and may regulate, restrict or prohibit the operation of pool and billiard halls,...
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-181.1. Regulation of sexually oriented businesses
(a) The General Assembly finds and determines that sexually oriented businesses can and do cause adverse secondary impacts on neighboring properties. Numerous studies that...
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-182. Abuse of animals
A city may by ordinance define and prohibit the abuse of animals. (1917, c. 136, subch. 5, s. 1; 1919, cc. 136, 237; C.S.,...
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-183. Regulation of explosive, corrosive, inflammable, or radioactive substances
A city may by ordinance restrict, regulate or prohibit the sale, possession, storage, use, or conveyance of any explosive, corrosive, inflammable, or radioactive substances,...
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-184. Noise regulation
A city may by ordinance regulate, restrict, or prohibit the production or emission of noises or amplified speech, music, or other sounds that tend...
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-185. Emission of pollutants or contaminants
A city may by ordinance regulate, restrict, or prohibit the emission or disposal of substances or effluents that tend to pollute or contaminate land,...
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-186. Regulation of domestic animals
A city may by ordinance regulate, restrict, or prohibit the keeping, running, or going at large of any domestic animals, including dogs and cats....
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-187. Possession or harboring of dangerous animals
A city may by ordinance regulate, restrict, or prohibit the possession or harboring within the city of animals which are dangerous to persons or...
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-188. Bird sanctuaries
A city may by ordinance create and establish a bird sanctuary within the city limits. The ordinance may not protect any birds classed as...
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-189. Firearms
A city may by ordinance regulate, restrict, or prohibit the discharge of firearms at any time or place within the city except when used...
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-190. Pellet guns
A city may by ordinance regulate, restrict, or prohibit the sale, possession or use within the city of pellet guns or any other mechanism...
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-191. Limitations on enactment of Sunday-closing ordinances
No ordinance regulating or prohibiting business activity on Sundays shall be enacted unless the council shall hold a public hearing on the proposed ordinance....
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-192. Repealed by Session Laws 1991, c. 698, s. 1
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-193. Abatement of public health nuisances
(a) A city shall have authority to summarily remove, abate, or remedy everything in the city limits, or within one mile thereof, that is...
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-193.1. Stream-clearing programs
(a) A city shall have the authority to remove natural and man-made obstructions in stream channels and in the floodway of streams that may...
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-194. Regulating and licensing businesses, trades, etc
(a) A city may by ordinance, subject to the general law of the State, regulate and license occupations, businesses, trades, professions, and forms of...
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-195. Repealed by Session Laws 1998-128, s. 11
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-196. Sewage tie-ons
Cities that (in whole or in part) are adjacent to, adjoining, intersected by or bounded by the Atlantic Ocean and Roanoke, Albemarle, Currituck, or...
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-197. Repealed by Session Laws 1995, c. 501, s. 4
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-198. Curfews
A city may by an appropriate ordinance impose a curfew on persons of any age less than 18. (1997-189, s. 1.)
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-199. Regulation of outdoor advertising
(a) As used in this section, the term "off-premises outdoor advertising" includes off-premises outdoor advertising visible from the main-traveled way of any road. (b)...
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-200. Annual notice to chronic violators of overgrown vegetation ordinances
(a) A municipality may notify a chronic violator of the municipality's overgrown vegetation ordinance that, if the violator's property is found to be in...
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-200.1. Annual notice to chronic violators of public nuisance ordinance
A city may notify a chronic violator of the city's public nuisance ordinance that, if the violator's property is found to be in violation...
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-201. Limitations on regulating solar collectors
(a) Except as provided in subsection (c) of this section, no city ordinance shall prohibit, or have the effect of prohibiting, the installation of...
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-202. Limitations on regulating cisterns and rain barrels
No city ordinance may prohibit or have the effect of prohibiting the installation and maintenance of cisterns and rain barrel collection systems used to...
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-203. Limitations on regulating soft drink sizes
No city ordinance may prohibit the sale of soft drinks above a particular size. This section does not prohibit any ordinance regulating the sanitation...
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-204. Transportation impact mitigation ordinances prohibited
No city may enact or enforce an ordinance, rule, or regulation that requires an employer to assume financial, legal, or other responsibility for the...
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-205. Cities enforce ordinances within public trust areas
(a) Notwithstanding the provisions of G.S. 113-131 or any other provision of law, a city may, by ordinance, define, prohibit, regulate, or abate acts,...

Article 9 - Taxation.

N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-207. Remedies for collecting taxes
In addition to any other remedies provided by law, the remedies of levy, garnishment, and attachment shall be available for collecting any city tax...
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-208. Continuing taxes
Except for taxes levied on property under the Machinery Act, a city may impose an authorized tax by a permanent ordinance that shall stand...
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-208.1. Disclosure of certain information prohibited
(a) Disclosure Prohibited. - Notwithstanding Chapter 132 of the General Statutes or any other law regarding access to public records, local tax records that...
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-209. Property taxes
(a) Pursuant to Article V, Sec. 2(5) of the Constitution of North Carolina, the General Assembly confers upon each city in this State the...
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-210. Repealed by Session Laws 1979, 2nd Session, c. 1247, s. 22
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-211. Privilege license taxes
(a) (See editor's note) Repealed by Session Laws 2013-414, s. 58(b), effective January 1, 2014. (b) Barbershop and Salon Restriction. - A privilege license...
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-211.1. Privilege license tax on low-level radioactive and hazardous waste facilities
(a) Cities in which hazardous waste facilities as defined in G.S. 130A-290 or low-level radioactive waste facilities as defined in G.S. 104E-5(9b) are located...
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-212. Animal taxes
A city shall have power to levy an annual license tax on the privilege of keeping any domestic animal, including dogs and cats, within...
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-213. Motor vehicle taxes
(a) A city may impose an annual license tax on motor vehicles as permitted by G.S. 20-97. (b) By ordinance a city may provide...
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-214. Repealed by Session Laws 2006-151, s. 13, effective January 1, 2007
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-214.1. Uniform penalties for local meals taxes
(a) Penalties. - Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the civil and criminal penalties that apply to State sales and use taxes under Chapter...
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-215. Uniform provisions for room occupancy taxes
(a) Scope. - This section applies only to municipalities the General Assembly has authorized to levy room occupancy taxes. For the purpose of this...
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-215.1. Gross receipts tax on short-term leases or rentals
(a) As a substitute for and in replacement of the ad valorem tax, which is excluded by G.S. 105-275(42), a city may levy a...

Article 10 - Special Assessments.

N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-216. Authority to make special assessments
Any city is authorized to make special assessments against benefited property within its corporate limits for: (1) Constructing, reconstructing, paving, widening, installing curbs and...
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-217. Petition for street or sidewalk improvements
(a) A city shall have no power to levy special assessments for street or sidewalk improvements unless it receives a petition for the improvements...
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-218. Basis for making assessments
Assessments may be made on the basis of: (1) The frontage abutting on the project, at an equal rate per foot of frontage, or...
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-219. Corner lot exemptions
The council shall have authority to establish schedules of exemptions from assessments for corner lots when a project is undertaken along both sides of...
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-220. Lands exempt from assessment
No lands within a city, except as herein provided, shall be exempt from special assessments except lands belonging to the United States that are...
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-221. Assessments against lands owned by the State
When any city proposes to make local improvements that would benefit lands owned by the State of North Carolina or any board, agency, commission,...
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-222. Assessments against railroads
Assessments shall not be made against land owned, leased or controlled by a railroad company, except that if there is a building on the...
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-223. Preliminary resolution; contents
Whenever the council decides to finance a proposed project by special assessments, it shall first adopt a preliminary resolution that shall contain the following:...
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-224. Notice of preliminary resolution
At least 10 days before the date set for the public hearing, the council shall publish a notice that a preliminary assessment resolution has...
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-225. Hearing on preliminary resolution; assessment resolution
At the public hearing, the council shall hear all interested persons who appear with respect to any matter covered by the preliminary resolution. After...
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-226. Determination of costs
When the project is complete, the council shall ascertain the total cost. In addition to construction costs, the cost of all necessary legal services,...
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-226.1. Discounts authorized
The council is authorized to establish a schedule of discounts to be applied to assessments paid before the expiration of 30 days from the...
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-227. Preliminary assessment roll; publication
When the total cost of a project has been determined, the council shall have a preliminary assessment roll prepared. The preliminary roll shall contain...
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-228. Hearing on preliminary assessment roll; revision; confirmation; lien
At the public hearing, which may be adjourned from time to time until all persons have had an opportunity to be heard, the council...
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-229. Publication of notice of confirmation of assessment roll
After the expiration of 20 days from the confirmation of the assessment roll, the city tax collector shall publish once a notice that the...
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-230. Appeal to General Court of Justice
If the owner of, or any person interested in, any lot or parcel of land against which an assessment is made is dissatisfied with...
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-231. Reassessment
The council shall have the power, when in its judgment any irregularity, omission, error or lack of jurisdiction in any of the proceedings related...
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-232. Payment of assessments in cash or by installments
The owners of assessed property shall have the option, within 30 days after the publication of the notice that the assessment roll has been...
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-233. Enforcement of assessments; interests; foreclosure; limitations
(a) Any portion of an assessment that is not paid within 30 days after publication of the notice that the assessment roll has been...
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-234. Assessments on property held by tenancy for life or years
(a) Assessments upon real property in the possession or enjoyment of a tenant for life, or a tenant for a term of years, shall...
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-235. Lien in favor of a cotenant or joint owner paying special assessments
Any one of several tenants in common, or joint tenants, or copartners shall have the right to pay the whole or any part of...
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-236. Apportionment of assessments
When special assessments are made against property which has been or is about to be subdivided, the council may, with the consent of the...
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-237. Authority to hold water and sewer assessments in abeyance
The assessment resolution may provide that assessments levied under this Article for water or sewer improvements be held in abeyance without interest until improvements...
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-238. Authority to make assessments for beach erosion control and flood and hurricane protection works
A city may make special assessments, according to the procedures of this Article, against benefited property within the city for all or part of...
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-239. Reserved for future codification purposes

Article 10A - Special Assessments for Critical Infrastructure Needs.

N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-239.1. (See note for expiration of Article) Purpose; sunset
(a) Purpose. - This Article enables cities that face increased demands for infrastructure improvements as a result of rapid growth and development to issue...
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-239.2. (See note for expiration of Article) Assessments
(a) Projects. - The council of a city may make special assessments as provided in this Article against benefited property within the city for...
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-239.3. (See note for expiration of Article) Petition required
(a) Petition. - The city council may not impose a special assessment under this Article unless it receives a petition for the project to...
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-239.4. (See note for expiration of Article) Financing a project for which an assessment is imposed
(a) Financing Sources. - A city council may provide for the payment of the cost of a project for which an assessment may be...
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-239.5. (See note for expiration of Article) Payment of assessments by installments
An assessment imposed under this Article is payable in annual installments. The city council must set the number of annual installments, which may not...
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-239.6. (See note for expiration of Article) Revenue bonds
(a) Authorization. - A city council that imposes an assessment under this Article may issue revenue bonds under Article 5 of Chapter 159 of...
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-239.7. (See note for expiration of Article) Project implementation
A city may act directly, through one or more contracts with other public agencies, through one or more contracts with private agencies, or by...

Article 11 - Eminent Domain.

N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-240. Repealed by Session Laws 1981, c. 919, s. 28, effective January 1, 1982
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-240.1. Power to acquire property
A city may acquire, by gift, grant, devise, exchange, purchase, lease, or any other lawful method, the fee or any lesser interest in real...
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-241 through 160A-261. Repealed by Session Laws 1981, c. 919, s. 28, effective January 1, 1982
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-262. Repealed by Session Laws 1973, c. 426, s. 42
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-263. Repealed by Session Laws 1981, c. 919, s. 28, effective January 1, 1982
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-264. Reserved for future codification purposes

Article 12 - Sale and Disposition of Property.

N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-265. Use and disposal of property
In the discretion of the council, a city may: (i) hold, use, change the use thereof to other uses, or (ii) sell or dispose...
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-266. Methods of sale; limitation
(a) Subject to the limitations prescribed in subsection (b) of this section, and according to the procedures prescribed in this Article, a city may...
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-267. Private sale
When the council proposes to dispose of property by private sale, it shall at a regular council meeting adopt a resolution or order authorizing...
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-268. Advertisement for sealed bids
The sale of property by advertisement for sealed bids shall be done in the manner prescribed by law for the purchase of property, except...
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-269. Negotiated offer, advertisement, and upset bids
A city may receive, solicit, or negotiate an offer to purchase property and advertise it for upset bids. When an offer is made and...
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-270. Public auction
(a) Real Property. - When it is proposed to sell real property at public auction, the council shall first adopt a resolution authorizing the...
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-271. Exchange of property
A city may exchange any real or personal property belonging to the city for other real or personal property by private negotiation if the...
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-272. Lease or rental of property
(a) Any property owned by a city may be leased or rented for such terms and upon such conditions as the council may determine,...
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-272.1. Lease of utility or enterprise property
Subject to G.S. 160A-321, a city-owned utility or public service enterprise, or part thereof, may be leased. (1979, 2nd Sess., c. 1247, s. 27.)
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-273. Grant of easements
A city shall have authority to grant easements over, through, under, or across any city property or the right-of-way of any public street or...
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-274. Sale, lease, exchange and joint use of governmental property
(a) For the purposes of this section, "governmental unit" means a city, county, school administrative unit, sanitary district, fire district, the State, or any...
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-275. Warranty deeds
Any city, county, or other municipal corporation is authorized to execute and deliver deeds to any real property with full covenants of warranty, without...
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-276. Sale of stocks, bonds, and other securities
A city may sell through a broker without complying with the preceding sections of this Article shares of common and preferred stock, bonds, options,...
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-277. Sale of land to volunteer fire departments and rescue squads; procedure
(a) A city, upon such terms and conditions as it deems wise, with or without monetary consideration may lease, sell or convey to a...
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-278. Lease of land for housing
A city may lease land upon such terms and conditions as it deems wise to any person, firm or corporation who will use the...
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-279. Sale of property to entities carrying out a public purpose; procedure
(a) Whenever a city or county is authorized to appropriate funds to any public or private entity which carries out a public purpose, the...
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-280. Donations of personal property to other governmental units
(a) A city may donate to another governmental unit within the United States, a sister city, or a nonprofit organization incorporated by (i) the...

Article 13 - Law Enforcement.

N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-281. Policemen appointed
A city is authorized to appoint a chief of police and to employ other police officers who may reside outside the corporate limits of...
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-282. Auxiliary law-enforcement personnel; workers' compensation benefits
(a) A city may by ordinance provide for the organization of an auxiliary police department made up of volunteer members. (b) A city, by...
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-283. Joint county and city auxiliary police
The governing body of any city, town, or county is hereby authorized to create and establish a joint law-enforcement officers' auxiliary force with one...
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-284. Oath of office; holding other offices
Each person appointed or employed as chief of police, policeman, or auxiliary policeman shall take and subscribe before some person authorized by law to...
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-285. Powers and duties of policemen
As a peace officer, a policeman shall have within the corporate limits of the city all of the powers invested in law-enforcement officers by...
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-286. Extraterritorial jurisdiction of policemen
In addition to their authority within the corporate limits, city policemen shall have all the powers invested in law-enforcement officers by statute or common...
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-287. City lockups
A city shall have authority to establish, erect, repair, maintain and operate a lockup for the temporary detention of prisoners pending their transferal to...
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-288. Cooperation between law-enforcement agencies
(a) In accordance with rules, policies, or guidelines officially adopted by the governing body of the city or county by which he is employed,...
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-288.1. Assistance by State law-enforcement officers; rules; cost
(a) The governing body of any city or county may request the Governor to assign temporarily State law-enforcement officers with statewide authority to provide...
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-288.2. Assistance to State law-enforcement agencies
(a) In accordance with rules, policies, or guidelines officially adopted by the governing body of the city or county by which he is employed,...
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-288.3. Expired
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-288.4. Police chief may establish volunteer school safety resource officer program
(a) The chief of police of a local police department or of a county police department may establish a volunteer school safety resource officer...
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-289. Training and development programs for law enforcement
A city shall have authority to plan and execute training and development programs for law-enforcement agencies, and for that purpose may (1) Contract with...
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-289.1. Resources to protect the public
Subject to the requirements of G.S. 7A-41, 7A-44.1, 7A-64, 7A-102, 7A-133, and 7A-498.7, a city may appropriate funds under contract with the State for...
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-289.2. Neighborhood crime watch programs
A city may establish neighborhood crime watch programs within the city to encourage residents and business owners to promote citizen involvement in securing homes,...
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-290. Reserved for future codification purposes

Article 14 - Fire Protection.

N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-291. Firemen appointed
A city is authorized to appoint a fire chief; to employ other firemen; to establish, organize, equip, and maintain a fire department; and to...
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-292. Duties of fire chief
Where not otherwise prescribed, the duties of the fire chief shall be to preserve and care for fire apparatus, have charge of fighting and...
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-293. Fire protection outside city limits; immunity; injury to firemen
(a) A city may install and maintain water mains, pipes, hydrants, buildings and equipment outside its corporate limits and may send its firemen and...
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-294. Loss of rural fire employment
(a) Whenever a city annexes any territory under Parts 2 or 3 of Article 4A of this Chapter, and because of the annexation the...
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-294.1. Honoring deceased or retiring firefighters
A fire department established by a municipality pursuant to this Article may, in the discretion of the governing body of the municipality, award to...

Article 14A - Municipal Firefighters.

N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-295. (Contingent effective date - see Editor's note) Definitions
As used in this Article, the following terms mean: (1) Compensatory time. - Time off with regular compensation in lieu of immediate overtime premium...
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-295.1. (Contingent effective date - see Editor's note) Municipal firefighters; hours of labor; overtime pay
(a) A firefighter or a member of a fire department who provides emergency medical services, other than supervisory personnel, and who is required or...
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-295.2. (Contingent effective date - see Editor's note) Authority of Department of Labor
The Department of Labor shall have the authority to enforce the provisions of this Article to the extent that these provisions are not subject...
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-295.3. (Contingent effective date - see Editor's note) Applicability
This Article applies only to full-time paid firefighters and other full-time paid members of a fire department of a municipality that employs five or...

Article 15 - Streets, Traffic and Parking.

N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-296. Establishment and control of streets; center and edge lines
(a) A city shall have general authority and control over all public streets, sidewalks, alleys, bridges, and other ways of public passage within its...
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-297. Streets under authority of Board of Transportation
(a) A city shall not be responsible for maintaining streets or bridges under the authority and control of the Board of Transportation, and shall...
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-298. Railroad crossings
(a) A city shall have authority to direct, control, and prohibit the laying of railroad tracks and switches in public streets and alleys and...
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-299. Procedure for permanently closing streets and alleys
(a) When a city proposes to permanently close any street or public alley, the council shall first adopt a resolution declaring its intent to...
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-299.1. Applications for intermittent closing of roads within watershed improvement project by municipality; notice; costs; markers
(a) Upon proper application by the board of commissioners of a drainage district established under the provisions of Chapter 156 of the General Statutes...
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-300. Traffic control
A city may by ordinance prohibit, regulate, divert, control, and limit pedestrian or vehicular traffic upon the public streets, sidewalks, alleys, and bridges of...
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-300.1. Use of traffic control photographic systems
(a) A traffic control photographic system is an electronic system consisting of a photographic, video, or electronic camera and a vehicle sensor installed to...
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-300.5. Repealed by Session Laws 2009-459, s. 2, effective October 1, 2009
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-300.6. Regulation of golf carts on streets, roads, and highways
(a) Notwithstanding the provisions of G.S. 20-50 and G.S. 20-54, a city may, by ordinance, regulate the operation of golf carts, as defined in...
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-301. Parking
(a) On-Street Parking. - A city may by ordinance regulate, restrict, and prohibit the parking of vehicles on the public streets, alleys, and bridges...
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-302. Off-street parking facilities
A city shall have authority to own, acquire, establish, regulate, operate, and control off-street parking lots, parking garages, and other facilities for parking motor...
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-302.1. Fishing from bridges regulated
The governing body of any city is hereby authorized to enact an ordinance prohibiting or regulating fishing from any bridge for the purpose of...
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-303. Removal and disposal of junked and abandoned motor vehicles
(a) A city may by ordinance prohibit the abandonment of motor vehicles on the public streets or on public or private property within the...
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-303.1. Regulation of the placing of trash, refuse and garbage within municipal limits
The governing body of any municipality is hereby authorized to enact an ordinance prohibiting the placing, discarding, disposing or leaving of any trash, refuse...
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-303.2. Regulation of abandonment of junked motor vehicles
(a) A municipality may by ordinance regulate, restrain or prohibit the abandonment of junked motor vehicles on public grounds and on private property within...
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-304. Regulation of taxis
(a) A city may by ordinance license and regulate all vehicles operated for hire in the city. The ordinance may require that the drivers...
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-305. Agreements under National Highway Safety Act
Any city is hereby authorized to enter into agreements with the State of North Carolina and its agencies, and with the federal government and...
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-306. Building setback lines
(a) A city shall have authority to (i) classify all or a portion of the streets in the city according to their size, present...
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-307. Curb cut regulations
A city may by ordinance regulate the size, location, direction of traffic flow, and manner of construction of driveway connections into any street or...
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-308. Regulation of dune buggies
A municipality may by ordinance regulate, restrict and prohibit the use of dune or beach buggies, jeeps, motorcycles, cars, trucks, or any other form...
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-309. Intersection and roadway improvements
A city may contract with a developer or property owner, or with a private party who is under contract with the developer or property...
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-310. Reserved for future codification purposes

Article 16 - Public Enterprises.

N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-311. Public enterprise defined
As used in this Article, the term "public enterprise" includes: (1) Electric power generation, transmission, and distribution systems. (2) Water supply and distribution systems....
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-312. Authority to operate public enterprises
(a) A city shall have authority to acquire, construct, establish, enlarge, improve, maintain, own, operate, and contract for the operation of any or all...
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-313. Financing public enterprise
Subject to the restrictions, limitations, procedures, and regulations otherwise provided by law, a city shall have full authority to finance the cost of any...
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-314. Authority to fix and enforce rates
(a) A city may establish and revise from time to time schedules of rents, rates, fees, charges, and penalties for the use of or...
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-314.1. Availability fees for solid waste disposal facilities; collection of any solid waste fees
(a) A city may impose a fee for the collection of solid waste. The fee may not exceed the costs of collection. A city...
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-315. Billing and collecting agents for certain sewer systems
Any city that maintains and operates a sewage collection and disposal system but does not maintain and operate a water distribution system is authorized...
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-316. Independent water companies to supply information
The owner or operator of any independent or private water distribution system operating within a city that maintains and operates a sewage collection and...
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-317. Power to require connections to water or sewer service and the use of solid waste collection services
(a) Connections. - A city may require an owner of developed property on which there are situated one or more residential dwelling units or...
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-318. Mutual aid contracts
(a) Any two or more cities, counties, water and sewer authorities, metropolitan sewage districts, sanitary districts, or private utility companies or combination thereof may...
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-319. Utility franchises
(a) A city shall have authority to grant upon reasonable terms franchises for a telephone system and any of the enterprises listed in G.S....
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-320. Public enterprise improvements
(a) Authorization. - A city may contract with a developer or property owner, or with a private party who is under contract with the...
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-321. Sale, lease, or discontinuance of city-owned enterprise
(a) A city is authorized to sell or lease as lessor any enterprise that it may own upon any terms and conditions that the...
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-322. Contracts for electric power and water
A city is authorized to enter into contracts for a period not exceeding 40 years for the supply of water, and for a period...
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-323. Load management and peak load pricing of electric power
In addition and supplemental to the powers conferred upon municipalities by the laws of the State and for the purposes of conserving electricity and...
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-324. Contract with private solid waste collection firm(s)
(a) If the area to be annexed described in an act of the General Assembly includes an area where a firm (i) meets the...
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-325. Selection or approval of sites for certain sanitary landfills; solid waste defined
(a) The governing board of a city shall consider alternative sites and socioeconomic and demographic data and shall hold a public hearing prior to...
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-326. Limitations on rail transportation liability
(a) As used in this section: (1) "Claim" means a claim, action, suit, or request for damages, whether compensatory, punitive, or otherwise, made by...
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-327. Displacement of private solid waste collection services
(a) A unit of local government shall not displace a private company that is providing collection services for municipal solid waste or recovered materials,...
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-328. Local government landfill liaison
(a) A city that has planning jurisdiction over any portion of the site of a sanitary landfill may employ a local government landfill liaison....
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-329. Provision of municipal services to certain properties
(a) A municipality shall provide municipal services as defined under subsection (b) of this section to any property if that property owner submitted a...
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-330. Reserved for future codification purposes
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-331. Definitions
Unless the context otherwise requires, the following words and phrases shall have the meanings indicated when used in this Part: (1) "Assigned area" means...
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-331.1. Repealed by Session Laws 2007-419, s. 3, effective August 21, 2007
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-331.2. Agreements of electric suppliers
(a) The General Assembly finds and determines that, in order to avoid the unnecessary duplication of electric facilities and to facilitate the settlement of...
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-332. Electric service within city limits
(a) The suppliers of electric service inside the corporate limits of any city in which a secondary supplier was furnishing electric service on the...
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-333. Temporary electric service
No electric supplier shall furnish temporary electric service for the construction of premises which it would not have the right to serve under this...
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-334. Authority and jurisdiction of Utilities Commission
Notwithstanding G.S. 160A-332 and 160A-333, if the North Carolina Utilities Commission finds that service being furnished to or to be furnished to the consumer...
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-335. Discontinuance of service and transfer of facilities by secondary supplier
A secondary supplier may voluntarily discontinue its service to any premises and remove any of its electric facilities located inside the corporate limits of...
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-336. Electric service for city facilities
No provisions of this Part shall prevent a city that is a primary supplier from furnishing its own electric service for city facilities, or...
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-337. Effect of Part on rights and duties of primary supplier
Except for the rights granted to and restrictions upon primary suppliers contained in the provisions of this Part, nothing in this Part shall diminish,...
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-338. Electric suppliers subject to police power
No provisions of this Part shall restrict the exercise of the police power of a city over the erection and maintenance of poles, wires,...
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-339 through 160A-340. Reserved for future codification purposes

Article 16A - Provision of Communications Service by Cities.

N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-340. Definitions
The following definitions apply in this Article: (1) City-owned communications service provider. - A city that provides communications service using a communications network, whether...
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-340.1. City-owned communications service provider requirements
(a) A city-owned communications service provider shall meet all of the following requirements: (1) Comply in its provision of communications service with all local,...
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-340.2. Exemptions
(a) The provisions of G.S. 160A-340.1, 160A-340.4, 160A-340.5, and 160A-340.6 do not apply to the purchase, lease, construction, or operation of facilities by a...
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-340.3. Notice; public hearing
A city or joint agency that proposes to provide communications service shall hold not fewer than two public hearings, which shall be held not...
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-340.4. Financing
(a) A city or joint agency subject to the provisions of G.S. 160A-340.1 shall not enter into a contract under G.S. 160A-19 or G.S....
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-340.5. Taxes; payments in lieu of taxes
(a) A communications network owned or operated by a city or joint agency shall be exempt from property taxes. However, each city possessing an...
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-340.6. Public-private partnerships for communications service
(a) Prior to undertaking to construct a communications network for the provision of communications service, a city shall first solicit proposals from private business...

Article 17 - Cemeteries.

N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-341. Authority to establish and operate cemeteries
A city shall have authority to establish, operate, and maintain cemeteries either inside or outside its corporate limits, may acquire and hold real and...
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-342. Authority to transfer cemeteries
A city may transfer and convey any city cemetery property, together with any accumulated perpetual care trust funds set aside for the maintenance of...
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-343. Authority to abandon cemeteries
A city shall have authority to abandon any cemetery that has not been used for interment purposes within 10 years. Upon abandonment, all monuments,...
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-344. Authority to assume control of abandoned cemeteries
(a) Whenever property not under the control or in the possession of any church or religious organization in any city has been heretofore set...
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-345. Authority to condemn cemeteries
A city shall have authority to acquire title in fee simple by purchase or exercise of the power of eminent domain to any cemetery,...
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-346. Authority to condemn easements for perpetual care
A city shall have authority to acquire an easement for perpetual care by gift, grant, purchase, or exercise of the power of eminent domain...
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-347. Perpetual care trust funds
(a) A city is authorized to create a perpetual care trust fund for any cemeteries under its ownership or control, to accept gifts, grants,...
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-348. Regulation of city cemeteries
A city may by ordinance adopt rules and regulations concerning the opening of graves, the erection of tombstones and monuments, the building of walls...
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-349. Reserved for future codification purposes

Article 17A - Cemetery Trustees.

N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-349.1. Creation of board authorized; official title; terms of office; vacancies
The governing body of any municipal corporation which now owns or shall hereafter own a cemetery is authorized, if it is deemed proper, to...
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-349.2. Members to meet and organize; meetings; bond of secretary and treasurer; record of proceedings
The members of said board, when properly elected, shall within 30 days after notice of their election convene and designate one of their number...
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-349.3. Property vested
Upon the creation of such board the title to all property held by the town or city and used for cemetery purposes shall pass...
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-349.4. Control and management; superintendent and assistants; enumeration of powers
The said board shall have the exclusive control and management of such cemetery; shall have the power to employ a superintendent and such assistants...
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-349.5. Rules continued in force
All rules and regulations heretofore adopted by the town or city for the control, upkeep, management, and maintenance, as well as policing of the...
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-349.6. Rules for maintaining order and policing; force of rules; copy to governing body; publication
The said board shall have power to adopt rules and regulations for maintaining order in the cemetery and policing the same, and such rules...
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-349.7. Presentation of budget; details of budget; appropriation; payment to board
Thirty days prior to the adoption of the annual budget by the governing body of the town or city, the said trustees shall present...
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-349.8. Commissioners to obtain maps, plats and deeds; list of lots sold and owners; surveys and plats to be made; additional lots, streets, walks and parkways; price of lots; regulation of sale of lots
The board of trustees shall obtain from the governing body all maps, plats, deeds and other evidences relating to the lands, lots and property...
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-349.9. Power to acquire land; adjacent property; disposal of money from lot sales; investments; income from investment
The said board shall have the power to acquire additional lands for cemetery purposes, either by purchase or otherwise. In making such additional acquisitions...
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-349.10. Power to condemn land; procedure for condemnation; board incorporated
If it becomes necessary to acquire additional lands for cemetery purposes and the board cannot agree with the owners upon the price thereof, the...
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-349.11. Price of lands included in budget
If any lands are acquired by purchase or condemnation for cemetery purposes and the board of trustees shall not have sufficient funds with which...
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-349.12. Power to accept gifts; exclusive use of gifts
The board of trustees of any cemetery shall have the power to accept gifts, either by devise or otherwise, and hold the same for...
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-349.13. Sale of unnecessary property
The board of trustees of any cemetery, created pursuant to this Article, shall have the power to sell at public auction, as provided by...
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-349.14. Exercise of powers subject to approval
The board may not act to acquire or sell land pursuant to G.S. 160A-349.9, G.S. 160A-349.10, or G.S. 160A-349.13 unless such action was approved...
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-349.15. Termination
The governing body of the town or city shall have the authority to terminate the existence of the board at any time. In the...

Article 18 - Parks and Recreation.

N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-350. Short title
This Article shall be known and may be cited as the "Recreation Enabling Law." (1945, c. 1052; 1971, c. 698, s. 1.)
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-351. Declaration of State policy
The lack of adequate recreational programs and facilities is a menace to the morals, happiness, and welfare of the people of this State. Making...
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-352. Recreation defined
"Recreation" means activities that are diversionary in character and aid in promoting entertainment, pleasure, relaxation, instruction, and other physical, mental, and cultural development and...
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-353. Powers
In addition to any other powers it may possess to provide for the general welfare of its citizens, each county and city in this...
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-354. Administration of parks and recreation programs
A city or county may operate a parks and recreation system as a line department, or it may create a parks and recreation commission...
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-355. Joint parks and recreation systems
Any two or more units of local government may cooperate in establishing parks and recreation systems as authorized in Article 20, Part 1, of...
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-356. Financing parks and recreation
Each county and city is authorized to expend for its parks and recreation system any of its revenues not otherwise limited as to use...
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-357. Repealed by Session Laws 1975, c. 664, s. 13
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-358. Reserved for future codification purposes
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-359. Reserved for future codification purposes

Article 19 - Planning and Regulation of Development.

N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-360. Territorial jurisdiction
(a) All of the powers granted by this Article may be exercised by any city within its corporate limits. In addition, any city may...
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-361. Planning boards
(a) Any city may by ordinance create or designate one or more boards or commissions to perform the following duties: (1) Make studies of...
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-362. Extraterritorial representation
When a city elects to exercise extraterritorial zoning or subdivision-regulation powers under G.S. 160A-360, it shall in the ordinance creating or designating its planning...
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-363. Supplemental powers
(a) A city or its designated planning board may accept, receive, and disburse in furtherance of its functions any funds, grants, and services made...
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-364.1. Statute of limitations
(a) A cause of action as to the validity of any ordinance adopting or amending a zoning map or approving a special use, conditional...
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-365. Enforcement of ordinances
Subject to the provisions of the ordinance, any ordinance adopted pursuant to authority conferred by this Article may be enforced by any remedy provided...
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-366. Validation of ordinance
Any city ordinance regularly adopted before January 1, 1972, under authority of general laws revised and reenacted in Chapter 160A, Article 19, or under...
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-367 through 160A-370. Reserved for future codification purposes
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-371. Subdivision regulation
A city may by ordinance regulate the subdivision of land within its territorial jurisdiction. In addition to final plat approval, the ordinance may include...
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-372. Contents and requirements of ordinance
(a) A subdivision control ordinance may provide for the orderly growth and development of the city; for the coordination of transportation networks and utilities...
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-373. Ordinance to contain procedure for plat approval; approval prerequisite to plat recordation; statement by owner
Any subdivision ordinance adopted pursuant to this Part shall contain provisions setting forth the procedures to be followed in granting or denying approval of...
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-374. Effect of plat approval on dedications
The approval of a plat shall not be deemed to constitute or effect the acceptance by the city or public of the dedication of...
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-375. Penalties for transferring lots in unapproved subdivisions
(a) If a city adopts an ordinance regulating the subdivision of land as authorized herein, any person who, being the owner or agent of...
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-376. Definition
(a) For the purpose of this Part, "subdivision" means all divisions of a tract or parcel of land into two or more lots, building...
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-377. Appeals of decisions on subdivision plats
(a) When a subdivision ordinance adopted under this Part provides that the decision whether to approve or deny a preliminary or final subdivision plat...
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-378. Reserved for future codification purposes
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-379. Reserved for future codification purposes
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-380. Reserved for future codification purposes
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-381. Grant of power
(a) For the purpose of promoting health, safety, morals, or the general welfare of the community, any city may adopt zoning and development regulation...
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-382. Districts
(a) For any or all these purposes, the city may divide its territorial jurisdiction into districts of any number, shape, and area that may...
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-383. Purposes in view
Zoning regulations shall be made in accordance with a comprehensive plan. When adopting or rejecting any zoning amendment, the governing board shall also approve...
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-383.1. Zoning regulations for manufactured homes
(a) The General Assembly finds and declares that manufactured housing offers affordable housing opportunities for low and moderate income residents of this State who...
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-383.2. Voluntary agricultural districts
A city may amend the ordinances applicable within its planning jurisdiction to provide flexibility to farming operations that are located within a city or...
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-383.3. Reasonable accommodation of amateur radio antennas
A city ordinance based on health, safety, or aesthetic considerations that regulates the placement, screening, or height of the antennas or support structures of...
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-383.4. Local energy efficiency incentives
(a) Land-Use Development Incentives. - Counties and municipalities, for the purpose of reducing the amount of energy consumption by new development, and thereby promoting...
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-384. Method of procedure
(a) The city council shall provide for the manner in which zoning regulations and restrictions and the boundaries of zoning districts shall be determined,...
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-385. Changes
(a) Qualified Protests. (1) Zoning ordinances may from time to time be amended, supplemented, changed, modified or repealed. In case, however, of a qualified...
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-385.1. Vested rights
(a) The General Assembly finds and declares that it is necessary and desirable, as a matter of public policy, to provide for the establishment...
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-386. Protest petition; form; requirements; time for filing
No protest against any change in or amendment to a zoning ordinance or zoning map shall be valid or effective for the purposes of...
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-387. Planning board; zoning plan; certification to city council
In order to initially exercise the powers conferred by this Part, a city council shall create or designate a planning board under the provisions...
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-388. Board of adjustment
(a) Composition and Duties. - The zoning or unified development ordinance may provide for the appointment and compensation of a board of adjustment consisting...
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-389. Remedies
If a building or structure is erected, constructed, reconstructed, altered, repaired, converted, or maintained, or any building, structure or land is used in violation...
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-390. Conflict with other laws
When regulations made under authority of this Part require a greater width or size of yards or courts, or require a lower height of...
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-391. Other statutes not repealed
This Part shall not repeal any zoning act or city planning act, local or general, now in force, except those that are repugnant to...
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-392. Part applicable to buildings constructed by State and its subdivisions; exception
All of the provisions of this Part are hereby made applicable to the erection, construction, and use of buildings by the State of North...
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-393. Appeals in the nature of certiorari
(a) Applicability. - This section applies to appeals of quasi-judicial decisions of decision-making boards when that appeal is to superior court and in the...
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-394. Reserved for future codification purposes
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-395 through 160A-399. Repealed by Session Laws 1989, c. 706, s. 1
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-399.1 through 160A-400. Repealed by Session Laws 1989, c. 706
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-400.1. Legislative findings
The historical heritage of our State is one of our most valued and important assets. The conservation and preservation of historic districts and landmarks...
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-400.2. Exercise of powers by counties as well as cities
The term "municipality" or "municipal" as used in G.S. 160A-400.1 through 160A-400.14 shall be deemed to include the governing board or legislative board of...
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-400.3. Character of historic district defined
Historic districts established pursuant to this Part shall consist of areas which are deemed to be of special significance in terms of their history,...
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-400.4. Designation of historic districts
(a) Any municipal governing board may, as part of a zoning or other ordinance enacted or amended pursuant to this Article, designate and from...
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-400.5. Designation of landmarks; adoption of an ordinance; criteria for designation
Upon complying with G.S. 160A-400.6, the governing board may adopt and from time to time amend or repeal an ordinance designating one or more...
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-400.6. Required landmark designation procedures
As a guide for the identification and evaluation of landmarks, the commission shall undertake, at the earliest possible time and consistent with the resources...
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-400.7. Historic Preservation Commission
Before it may designate one or more landmarks or historic districts, a municipality shall establish or designate a historic preservation commission. The municipal governing...
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-400.8. Powers of the Historic Preservation Commission
A preservation commission established pursuant to this Part may, within the zoning jurisdiction of the municipality: (1) Undertake an inventory of properties of historical,...
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-400.9. Certificate of appropriateness required
(a) From and after the designation of a landmark or a historic district, no exterior portion of any building or other structure (including masonry...
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-400.10. Conflict with other laws
Whenever any ordinance adopted pursuant to this Part requires a longer waiting period or imposes other higher standards with respect to a designated historic...
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-400.11. Remedies
In case any building, structure, site, area or object designated as a historic landmark or located within a historic district designated pursuant to this...
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-400.12. Appropriations
A city or county governing board is authorized to make appropriations to a historic preservation commission established pursuant to this Part in any amount...
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-400.13. Certain changes not prohibited
Nothing in this Part shall be construed to prevent the ordinary maintenance or repair of any exterior architectural feature in a historic district or...
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-400.14. Delay in demolition of landmarks and buildings within historic district
(a) An application for a certificate of appropriateness authorizing the relocation, demolition or destruction of a designated landmark or a building, structure or site...
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-400.15. Demolition by neglect to contributing structures outside local historic districts
Notwithstanding G.S. 160A-400.14 or any other provision of law, the governing board of any municipality may apply its demolition by neglect ordinances to contributing...
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-400.16. Reserved for future codification purposes
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-400.17. Reserved for future codification purposes
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-400.18. Reserved for future codification purposes
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-400.19. Reserved for future codification purposes
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-400.20. Authorization for development agreements
(a) The General Assembly finds: (1) Large-scale development projects often occur in multiple phases extending over a period of years, requiring a long-term commitment...
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-400.21. Definitions
The following definitions apply in this Part: (1) Comprehensive plan. - The comprehensive plan, land-use plan, small area plans, neighborhood plans, transportation plan, capital...
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-400.22. Local governments authorized to enter into development agreements; approval of governing body required
A local government may establish procedures and requirements, as provided in this Part, to consider and enter into development agreements with developers. A development...
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-400.23. Developed property must contain certain number of acres; permissible durations of agreements
(a) A local government may enter into a development agreement with a developer for the development of property as provided in this Part, provided...
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-400.24. Public hearing
Before entering into a development agreement, a local government shall conduct a public hearing on the proposed agreement following the procedures set forth in...
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-400.25. What development agreement must provide; what it may provide; major modification requires public notice and hearing
(a) A development agreement shall at a minimum include all of the following: (1) A legal description of the property subject to the agreement...
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-400.26. Law in effect at time of agreement governs development; exceptions
(a) Unless the development agreement specifically provides for the application of subsequently enacted laws, the laws applicable to development of the property subject to...
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-400.27. Periodic review to assess compliance with agreement; material breach by developer; notice of breach; cure of breach or modification or termination of agreement
(a) Procedures established pursuant to G.S. 160A-400.22 must include a provision for requiring periodic review by the zoning administrator or other appropriate officer of...
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-400.28. Amendment or cancellation of development agreement by mutual consent of parties or successors in interest
A development agreement may be amended or canceled by mutual consent of the parties to the agreement or by their successors in interest. (2005-426,...
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-400.29. Validity and duration of agreement entered into prior to change of jurisdiction; subsequent modification or suspension
(a) Except as otherwise provided by this Part, any development agreement entered into by a local government before the effective date of a change...
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-400.30. Developer to record agreement within 14 days; burdens and benefits inure to successors in interest
Within 14 days after a local government enters into a development agreement, the developer shall record the agreement with the register of deeds in...
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-400.31. Applicability to local government of constitutional and statutory procedures for approval of debt
In the event that any of the obligations of the local government in the development agreement constitute debt, the local government shall comply, at...
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-400.32. Relationship of agreement to building or housing code
A development agreement adopted pursuant to this Chapter shall not exempt the property owner or developer from compliance with the State Building Code or...
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-400.50. Purpose and compliance with federal law
(a) The purpose of this section is to ensure the safe and efficient integration of facilities necessary for the provision of advanced mobile broadband...
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-400.51. Definitions
The following definitions apply in this Part. (1) Antenna. - Communications equipment that transmits, receives, or transmits and receives electromagnetic radio signals used in...
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-400.51A. Local authority
A city may plan for and regulate the siting or modification of wireless support structures and wireless facilities in accordance with land development regulations...
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-400.52. Construction of new wireless support structures or substantial modifications of wireless support structures
(a) Repealed by Session Laws 2013-185, s. 1, effective October 1, 2013, and applicable to applications received on or after that date. (b) Any...
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-400.53. Collocation and eligible facilities requests of wireless support structures
(a) Pursuant to section 6409 of the federal Middle Class Tax Relief and Job Creation Act of 2012, 47 U.S.C. 1455(a), a city may...
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-400.54. Reserved for future codification purposes
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-400.55. Reserved for future codification purposes
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-400.56. Reserved for future codification purposes
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-400.57. Reserved for future codification purposes
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-400.58. Reserved for future codification purposes
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-401. Legislative intent
It is the intent of the General Assembly in enacting this Part to provide a means whereby any county or city may acquire, by...
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-402. Finding of necessity
The General Assembly finds that the rapid growth and spread of urban development in the State is encroaching upon, or eliminating, many open areas...
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-403. Counties or cities authorized to acquire and reconvey real property
Any county or city in the State may acquire by purchase, gift, grant, devise, lease, or otherwise, the fee or any lesser interest, development...
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-404. Joint action by governing bodies
Any county or city may enter into any agreement with any other county or city for the purpose of jointly exercising the authority granted...
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-405. Powers of governing bodies
Any county or city, in order to exercise the authority granted by this Part, may: (1) Enter into and carry out contracts with the...
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-406. Appropriations authorized
For the purposes set forth in this Part, a county or city may appropriate funds not otherwise limited as to use by law. (1963,...
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-407. Definitions
(a) For the purpose of this Part an "open space" or "open area" is any space or area (i) characterized by great natural scenic...
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-408 through 160A-410. Reserved for future codification purposes
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-411. Inspection department
Every city in the State is hereby authorized to create an inspection department, and may appoint one or more inspectors who may be given...
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-411.1. Qualifications of inspectors
On and after the applicable date set forth in the schedule in G.S. 160A-411, no city shall employ an inspector to enforce the State...
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-412. Duties and responsibilities
(a) The duties and responsibilities of an inspection department and of the inspectors therein shall be to enforce within their territorial jurisdiction State and...
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-413. Joint inspection department; other arrangements
A city council may enter into and carry out contracts with another city, county, or combination thereof under which the parties agree to create...
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-414. Financial support
The city council may appropriate for the support of the inspection department any funds that it deems necessary. It may provide for paying inspectors...
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-415. Conflicts of interest
No member of an inspection department shall be financially interested or employed by a business that is financially interested in the furnishing of labor,...
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-416. Failure to perform duties
If any member of an inspection department shall willfully fail to perform the duties required of him by law, or willfully shall improperly issue...
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-417. Permits
(a) Except as provided in subsection (a2) of this section, no person shall commence or proceed with any of the following without first securing...
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-418. Time limitations on validity of permits
A permit issued pursuant to G.S. 160A-417 shall expire by limitation six months, or any lesser time fixed by ordinance of the city council,...
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-419. Changes in work
After a permit has been issued, no changes or deviations from the terms of the application, plans and specifications, or the permit, except where...
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-420. Inspections of work in progress
As the work pursuant to a permit progresses, local inspectors shall make as many inspections thereof as may be necessary to satisfy them that...
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-421. Stop orders
(a) Whenever any building or structure or part thereof is being demolished, constructed, reconstructed, altered, or repaired in a hazardous manner, or in substantial...
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-422. Revocation of permits
The appropriate inspector may revoke and require the return of any permit by notifying the permit holder in writing stating the reason for the...
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-423. Certificates of compliance
At the conclusion of all work done under a permit, the appropriate inspector shall make a final inspection, and if he finds that the...
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-424. Periodic inspections
(a) The inspection department may make periodic inspections, subject to the council's directions, for unsafe, unsanitary, or otherwise hazardous and unlawful conditions in buildings...
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-425. Defects in buildings to be corrected
When a local inspector finds any defects in a building, or finds that the building has not been constructed in accordance with the applicable...
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-425.1. Repealed by Session Laws 2009-263, s. 1, effective October 1, 2009
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-426. Unsafe buildings condemned in localities
(a) Residential Building and Nonresidential Building or Structure. - Every building that shall appear to the inspector to be especially dangerous to life because...
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-427. Removing notice from condemned building
If any person shall remove any notice that has been affixed to any building or structure by a local inspector of any municipality and...
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-428. Action in event of failure to take corrective action
If the owner of a building or structure that has been condemned as unsafe pursuant to G.S. 160A-426 shall fail to take prompt corrective...
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-429. Order to take corrective action
If, upon a hearing held pursuant to the notice prescribed in G.S. 160A-428, the inspector shall find that the building or structure is in...
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-430. Appeal; finality of order if not appealed
Any owner who has received an order under G.S. 160A-429 may appeal from the order to the city council by giving notice of appeal...
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-431. Failure to comply with order
If the owner of a building or structure fails to comply with an order issued pursuant to G.S. 160A-429 from which no appeal has...
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-432. Enforcement
(a) [Action Authorized.] - Whenever any violation is denominated a misdemeanor under the provisions of this Part, the city, either in addition to or...
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-433. Records and reports
The inspection department shall keep complete and accurate records in convenient form of all applications received, permits issued, inspections and reinspections made, defects found,...
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-434. Appeals in general
Unless otherwise provided by law, appeals from any order, decision, or determination by a member of a local inspection department pertaining to the State...
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-435. Establishment of fire limits
The city council of every incorporated city shall pass one or more ordinances establishing and defining fire limits, which shall include the principal business...
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-436. Restrictions within primary fire limits
Within the primary fire limits of any city, as established and defined by ordinance, no frame or wooden building or structure or addition thereto...
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-437. Restriction within secondary fire limits
Within any secondary fire limits of any city or town, as established and defined by ordinance, no frame or wooden building or structure or...
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-438. Failure to establish primary fire limits
If the council of any city shall fail or refuse to establish and define the primary fire limits of the city as required by...
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-439. Ordinance authorized as to repair, closing, and demolition of nonresidential buildings or structures; order of public officer
(a) Authority. - The governing body of the city may adopt and enforce ordinances relating to nonresidential buildings or structures that fail to meet...
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-441. Exercise of police power authorized
It is hereby found and declared that the existence and occupation of dwellings in this State that are unfit for human habitation are inimical...
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-442. Definitions
The following terms shall have the meanings whenever used or referred to as indicated when used in this Part unless a different meaning clearly...
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-443. Ordinance authorized as to repair, closing, and demolition; order of public officer
Upon the adoption of an ordinance finding that dwelling conditions of the character described in G.S. 160A-441 exist within a city, the governing body...
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-443.1. Heat source required
(a) A city shall, by ordinance, require that by January 1, 2000, every dwelling unit leased as rental property within the city shall have,...
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-444. Standards
An ordinance adopted by a city under this Part shall provide that the public officer may determine that a dwelling is unfit for human...
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-445. Service of complaints and orders
(a) Complaints or orders issued by a public officer pursuant to an ordinance adopted under this Part shall be served upon persons either personally...
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-446. Remedies
(a) The governing body may provide for the creation and organization of a housing appeals board to which appeals may be taken from any...
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-447. Compensation to owners of condemned property
Nothing in this Part shall be construed as preventing the owner or owners of any property from receiving just compensation for the taking of...
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-448. Additional powers of public officer
An ordinance adopted by the governing body of the city may authorize the public officer to exercise any powers necessary or convenient to carry...
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-449. Administration of ordinance
The governing body of any city adopting an ordinance under this Part shall, as soon as possible thereafter, prepare an estimate of the annual...
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-450. Supplemental nature of Part
Nothing in this Part shall be construed to abrogate or impair the powers of the courts or of any department of any city to...
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-451. Membership and appointment of commission; joint commission
Each municipality and county in the State may create a special commission, to be known as the official appearance commission for the city or...
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-452. Powers and duties of commission
The commission, upon its appointment, shall make careful study of the visual problems and needs of the municipality or county within its area of...
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-453. Staff services; advisory council
The commission may recommend to the municipal or county governing board suitable arrangements for the procurement or provision of staff or technical services for...
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-454. Annual report
The commission shall, no later than April 15 of each year, submit to the municipal or county governing body a written report of its...
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-455. Receipt and expenditure of funds
The commission may receive contributions from private agencies, foundations, organizations, individuals, the State or federal government, or any other source, in addition to any...
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-456. Community development programs and activities
(a) Any city is authorized to engage in, to accept federal and State grants and loans for, and to appropriate and expend funds for...
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-457. Acquisition and disposition of property for redevelopment
In addition to the powers granted by G.S. 160A-456, any city is authorized, either as a part of a community development program or independently...
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-457.1. Urban Development Action Grants
In addition to the powers granted by G.S. 160A-456 and G.S. 160A-457, any city is authorized, either as a part of a community development...
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-457.2. Urban homesteading programs
A city may establish a program of urban homesteading, in which residential property of little or no value is conveyed to persons who agree...
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-458. Erosion and sedimentation control
Any city may enact and enforce erosion and sedimentation control ordinances as authorized by Article 4 of Chapter 113A of the General Statutes, and...
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-458.1. Floodway regulations
Any city may enact and enforce floodway regulation ordinances as authorized by Part 6 of Article 21 of Chapter 143 of the General Statutes,...
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-458.2. Mountain ridge protection
Cities may enact and enforce mountain ridge protection ordinances pursuant to Article 14 of Chapter 113A of the General Statutes, and in such enactment...
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-458.3. Downtown development projects
(a) In this section, "downtown development project" means a capital project in the city's central business district, as that district is defined by the...
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-458.4. Designation of transportation corridor official maps
Any city may establish transportation corridor official maps and may enact and enforce ordinances pursuant to Article 2E of Chapter 136 of the General...
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-458.5. Restriction of certain forestry activities prohibited
(a) The following definitions apply to this section: (1) Development. - Any activity, including timber harvesting, that is associated with the conversion of forestland...
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-459. Stormwater control
(a) A city may adopt and enforce a stormwater control ordinance to protect water quality and control water quantity. A city may adopt a...
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-459.1. Program to finance energy improvements
(a) Purpose. - The General Assembly finds it is in the best interest of the citizens of North Carolina to promote and encourage renewable...

Article 20 - Interlocal Cooperation.

N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-460. Definitions
The words defined in this section shall have the meanings indicated when used in this Part: (1) "Undertaking" means the joint exercise by two...
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-461. Interlocal cooperation authorized
Any unit of local government in this State and any one or more other units of local government in this State or any other...
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-462. Joint agencies
(a) Units agreeing to an undertaking may establish a joint agency charged with any or all of the responsibility for the undertaking. The units...
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-463. Personnel
(a) The units may agree that any joint agency established under G.S. 160A-462 shall appoint the officers, agents, and employees necessary to execute the...
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-464. Provisions of the agreement
Any contract or agreement establishing an undertaking shall specify: (1) The purpose or purposes of the contract or agreement; (2) The duration of the...
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-465. Repealed by Session Laws 1979, c. 774, s. 2
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-466. Revenue and expenditures for joint undertakings
When two or more units of local government are engaged in a joint undertaking, they may enter into agreements regarding financing, expenditures, and revenues...
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-467 through 160A-469. Reserved for future codification purposes
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-470. Creation of regional councils; definition of "unit of local government"
(a) Any two or more units of local government may create a regional council of governments by adopting identical concurrent resolutions to that effect...
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-471. Membership
Each unit of local government initially adopting a concurrent resolution under G.S. 160A-470 shall become a member of the regional council. Thereafter, any local...
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-472. Contents of charter
The charter of a regional council of governments shall: (1) Specify the name of the council; (2) Establish the powers, duties, and functions that...
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-473. Organization of council
Upon its creation, a regional council shall meet at a time and place agreed upon by its member governments and shall organize by electing...
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-474. Withdrawal from council
Any member government may withdraw from a regional council at the end of any fiscal year by giving at least 60 days' written notice...
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-475. Specific powers of council
The charter may confer on the regional council any of the following powers: (1) To apply for, accept, receive, and dispense funds and grants...
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-476. Fiscal affairs
Each unit of local government having membership in a regional council may appropriate funds to the council from any legally available revenues. Services of...
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-477. Reports
Each regional council shall prepare and distribute to its member governments and to the public an annual report of its activities including a financial...
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-478. Powers granted are supplementary
The powers granted to cities and counties by this Article are supplementary to any powers heretofore or hereafter granted by any other general law,...
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-479. Creation of authority; definition
(a) Any two or more units of local government may create a regional sports authority by adopting identical concurrent resolutions to that effect in...
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-479.1. Purpose of the authority
The purpose of a regional sports authority shall be to research, design, construct, provide, finance, operate, improve, and maintain facilities for public participation and...
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-479.2. Jurisdiction of the authority
(a) The territorial jurisdiction of any authority created pursuant to this Part shall be coterminous with the boundaries of the respective units of local...
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-479.3. Membership
Each unit of local government initially adopting a concurrent resolution under G.S. 160A-479 shall become a member of the regional authority. Thereafter, any local...
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-479.4. Contents of charter
The charter of a regional sports authority shall: (1) Specify the name of the authority; (2) Establish the powers, duties, and functions that it...
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-479.5. Organization of authority
Upon its creation, a regional sports authority shall meet at a time and place agreed upon by its member governments and shall organize by...
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-479.6. Withdrawal from authority
Any member government may withdraw from a regional sports authority at the end of any fiscal year by giving at least 60 days' written...
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-479.7. Powers of authority
(a) The charter may confer on the regional sports authority any or all of the following powers: (1) To apply for, accept, receive, and...
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-479.8. Fiscal accountability
A Regional Sports Authority is a public authority subject to the provisions of Chapter 159 of the General Statutes of North Carolina. (1989, c....
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-479.9. Funds
(a) The establishment and operation of an authority as herein authorized are governmental functions and constitute a public purpose, and the State of North...
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-479.10. Controlling provisions
Insofar as the provisions of this Part are not consistent with the provisions of any other law, public or private, the provisions of this...
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-479.11. Conflicts of interest of public officials
Members, officers, and employees of any authority created under this Part shall be subject to the provisions of G.S. 14-234. (1989, c. 780, s.
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-479.12. Issuance of revenue bonds and notes
The Local Government Revenue Bond Act, G.S. Chapter 159, Article 5, governs the issuance of revenue bonds by an authority. G.S. Chapter 159, Article...
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-479.13. Acquisition of property
In addition to the powers hereinbefore granted, an authority may, in its charter, be granted continuing power to acquire, by gift, grant, devise, exchange,...
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-479.14. Tax exemption
(a) The property of an authority, both real and personal, its acts, activities and income shall be exempt from any tax or tax obligation;...
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-479.15. Removal and relocation of utility structures
(a) An authority may require any public utility, railroad, or other public service corporation owning or operating any installations, structures, equipment, apparatus, appliances or...
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-479.16. Advances
Any member government unit may make advances, from any moneys that may be available for such purpose, in connection with the creation of the...
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-479.17. Annexation
The annexation by a member government which is a city of areas lying outside of the territorial jurisdiction of the authority shall make such...
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-480. Reserved for future codification purposes
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-480.1. Short title
This Part is the "Facility Authority Act" and may be cited by that name. (1995, c. 458, s. 1.)
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-480.2. Definitions
The following definitions apply in this Part: (1) Authority. - A Facility Authority. (2) Credit facility. - An agreement with a banking institution, an...
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-480.3. Creation of Authority; additional membership
(a) Creation. - An authority may be created only by act of the General Assembly. An authority so created shall be a political subdivision...
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-480.4. Powers of an Authority
An Authority shall have all of the powers necessary or convenient to carry out and effectuate the purposes and provisions of this Part. These...
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-480.5. Dissolution of Authority
The General Assembly may dissolve an authority if all bonds or notes issued by the Authority and all other obligations incurred by the Authority...
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-480.6. Construction contracts
Article 8 of Chapter 143 of the General Statutes applies to a construction contract of an Authority. An Authority may solicit bids on the...
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-480.7. Seating at regional facility arena
The Authority shall ensure that at least fifty percent (50%) of the seats for an athletic event that is sponsored by a constituent institution...
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-480.8. Bonds
(a) Terms. - An Authority may provide for the issuance, at one time or from time to time, of bonds or notes to carry...
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-480.9. Trust agreement or resolution
In the discretion of the Authority, any bonds or notes issued under this Part may be secured by a trust instrument between the Authority...
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-480.10. Trust funds
Notwithstanding any other provision of law to the contrary, all money received pursuant to the authority of this Part, whether as proceeds from the...
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-480.11. Faith and credit of State and units of local government not pledged
Bonds or notes issued under this Part shall not constitute a debt secured by a pledge of the faith and credit of the State...
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-480.12. Revenue refunding bonds
The Authority may issue refunding bonds or notes for one or more of the following purposes: (1) Refunding any outstanding bonds or notes issued...
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-480.13. Bonds eligible for investment
Bonds and notes issued under this Part are hereby made securities in which all public officers, agencies, and public bodies of the State and...
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-480.14. Taxation of revenue bonds
Any bonds and notes issued by the Authority under the provisions of this Part shall be exempt from all State, county, and municipal taxation...
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-480.15. Members and officers not liable
No member or officer of an Authority shall be subject to any personal liability or accountability by reason of the execution of any bonds...
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-481 through 160A-484. Reserved for future codification purposes

Article 21 - Miscellaneous.

N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-485. Waiver of immunity through insurance purchase
(a) Any city is authorized to waive its immunity from civil liability in tort by the act of purchasing liability insurance. Participation in a...
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-485.1. Reserved for future codification purposes
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-485.2. Reserved for future codification purposes
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-485.3. Reserved for future codification purposes
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-485.4. Reserved for future codification purposes
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-485.5. Waiver of immunity for large cities through State Tort Claims Act
(a) Any city with a population of 500,000 or more according to the most recent decennial federal census is authorized to waive its immunity...
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-486. Estimates of population
When a newly incorporated municipality is not included in the most recent federal census of population but otherwise qualifies for distribution of State-collected funds...
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-487. City and county financial support for rescue squads
Each city and county is authorized to appropriate funds to rescue squads or teams to enable them to purchase and maintain rescue equipment and...
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-488. Museums and arts programs
(a) Any city or county is authorized to establish and support museums, art galleries, or arts centers, so long as the facility is open...
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-489. Auditoriums, coliseums, and convention centers
Any city is authorized to establish and support public auditoriums, coliseums, and convention centers. As used in this section, "support" includes but is not...
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-490. Photographic reproduction of records
(a) General Statutes 153A-436 shall apply to cities. When a county officer is designated by title in that Article, the designation shall be construed...
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-491. Powers in connection with beach erosion
[All cities shall have the power] to levy taxes and appropriate tax or nontax funds for the acquisition, construction, reconstruction, extension, maintenance, improvement, or...
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-492. Human relations, community action and manpower development programs
The governing body of any city, town, or county is hereby authorized to undertake, and to expend tax or nontax funds for, human relations,...
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-493. Animal shelters
A city may establish, equip, operate, and maintain an animal shelter or may contribute to the support of an animal shelter, and for these...
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-494. Drug abuse programs
Any city may provide for the prevention and treatment of narcotic, barbituric and other types of drug abuse and addiction through education, medication, medical...
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-495. Appropriations for establishment, etc., of local government center in Raleigh
Counties, cities and towns are hereby authorized to appropriate money for payment to their respective instrumentalities, the North Carolina Association of County Commissioners and...
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-496. Incorporation of local acts into charter
(a) A city may from time to time require the city attorney to present to the council any local acts relating to the property,...
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-497. Senior citizens programs
Any city or county may undertake programs for the assistance and care of its senior citizens including but not limited to programs for in-home...
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-498. Railroad corridor preservation
A city or county may acquire property, by purchase or gift, to preserve a railroad corridor established by the Department of Transportation. A city...
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-499. Reimbursement agreements
(a) A city may enter into reimbursement agreements with private developers and property owners for the design and construction of municipal infrastructure that is...
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-499.2. Fair housing ordinances in certain municipalities
(a) A municipality shall have the power to adopt ordinances prohibiting discrimination on the basis of race, color, sex, religion, handicap, familial status, or...
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-499.3. Limitation on the use of public funds
A municipality shall not use public funds to endorse or oppose a referendum, election or a particular candidate for elective office. (2010-114, s. 1.5(b).)

Article 22 - Urban Redevelopment Law.

N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-500. Short title
This Article shall be known and may be cited as the "Urban Redevelopment Law." (1951, c. 1095, s. 1; 1973, c. 426, s. 75.)
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-501. Findings and declaration of policy
It is hereby determined and declared as a matter of legislative finding: (1) That there exist in urban communities in this State blighted areas...
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-502. Additional findings and declaration of policy
It is further determined and declared as a matter of legislative finding: (1) That the cities of North Carolina constitute important assests for the...
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-503. Definitions
The following terms where used in this Article, shall have the following meanings, except where the context clearly indicates a different meaning: (1) "Area...
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-504. Formation of commissions
(a) Each municipality, as defined herein, is hereby authorized to create separate and distinct bodies corporate and politic to be known as the redevelopment...
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-505. Alternative organization
(a) (See note) In lieu of creating a redevelopment commission as authorized herein, the governing body of any municipality may, if it deems wise,...
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-505.1. Commission budgeting and accounting systems as a part of municipality budgeting and accounting systems
The governing body of a municipality may by resolution provide that the budgeting and accounting systems of the municipality's redevelopment commission or, if the...
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-506. Creation of a county redevelopment commission
If the board of county commissioners of a county by resolution declares that blighted areas do exist in said county, and the redevelopment of...
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-507. Creation of a regional redevelopment commission
If the board of county commissioners of two or more contiguous counties by resolution declare that blighted areas do exist in said counties and...
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-507.1. Creation of a joint county-city redevelopment commission
A county and one or more cities within the county are hereby authorized to create a separate and distinct body corporate and politic to...
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-508. Appointment and qualifications of members of commission
Upon certification of a resolution declaring the need for a commission to operate in a city or town, the mayor and governing board thereof,...
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-509. Tenure and compensation of members of commission
The mayor and governing body shall designate overlapping terms of not less than one nor more than five years for the members who are...
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-510. Organization of commission
The members of a commission shall select from among themselves a chairman, a vice-chairman, and such other officers as the commission may determine. A...
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-511. Interest of members or employees
No member or employee of a commission shall acquire any interest, direct or indirect, in any redevelopment project or in any property included or...
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-512. Powers of commission
A commission shall constitute a public body, corporate and politic, exercising public and essential governmental powers, which powers shall include all powers necessary or...
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-513. Preparation and adoption of redevelopment plans
(a) A commission shall prepare a redevelopment plan for any area certified by the planning commission to be a redevelopment area. A redevelopment plan...
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-514. Required procedures for contracts, purchases and sales; powers of commission in carrying out redevelopment project
(a) A commission may privately contract for engineering, legal, surveying, professional or other similar services without advertisement or bid. (b) In entering and carrying...
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-515. Eminent domain
The commission may exercise the right of eminent domain in accordance with the provisions of Chapter 40A, but only where the property to be...
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-515.1. Project development financing
(a) Authorization. - A city may finance a redevelopment project and any related public improvements with the proceeds of project development financing debt instruments,...
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-516. Issuance of bonds
(a) The commission shall have power to issue bonds from time to time for any of its corporate purposes including the payment of principal...
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-517. Powers in connection with issuance of bonds
(a) In connection with the issuance of bonds or the incurring of obligations and in order to secure the payment of such bonds or...
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-518. Right of obligee
An obligee of the commission shall have the right in addition to all other rights which may be conferred on such obligee, subject only...
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-519. Cooperation by public bodies
(a) For the purpose of aiding and cooperating in the planning, undertaking or carrying out of a redevelopment project located within the area in...
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-520. Grant of funds by community
Any municipality located within the area of operation of a commission may appropriate funds to a commission for the purpose of aiding such commission...
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-521. Records and reports
(a) The books and records of a commission shall at all times be open and subject to inspection by the public. (b) A copy...
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-522. Title of purchaser
Any instrument executed by a commission and purporting to convey any right, title or interest in any property under this Article shall be conclusive...
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-523. Preparation of general plan by local governing body
The governing body of any municipality or county, which is not otherwise authorized to create a planning commission with power to prepare a general...
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-524. Inconsistent provisions
Insofar as the provisions of this Article are inconsistent with the provisions of any other law, the provisions of this Article shall be controlling....
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-525. Certain actions and proceedings validated
All proceedings, resolutions, ordinances, motions, notices, findings, determinations, and other actions of redevelopment commissions, incorporated cities and towns, governing bodies, and planning boards and...
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-526. Contracts and agreements validated
All contracts or agreements of redevelopment commissions heretofore entered into with the federal government or its agencies, and with municipalities or others relating to...
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-527 through 160A-534. Reserved for future codification purposes

Article 23 - Municipal Service Districts.

N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-535. Title; effective date
This Article may be cited as "The Municipal Service District Act of 1973," and is enacted pursuant to Article V, Sec. 2(4) of the...
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-536. Purposes for which districts may be established
(a) Purposes. - The city council of any city may define any number of service districts in order to finance, provide, or maintain for...
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-537. Definition of service districts
(a) Standards. - The city council of any city may by resolution define a service district upon finding that a proposed district is in...
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-538. Extension of service districts
(a) Standards. - The city council may by resolution annex territory to any service district upon finding that: (1) The area to be annexed...
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-538.1. Reduction of service districts
(a) Upon finding that there is no longer a need to include within a particular service district any certain tract or parcel of land,...
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-539. Consolidation of service districts
(a) The city council may by resolution consolidate two or more service districts upon finding that: (1) The districts are contiguous or are in...
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-540. Required provision or maintenance of services
(a) New District. - When a city defines a new service district, it shall provide, maintain, or let contracts for the services for which...
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-541. Abolition of service districts
Upon finding that there is no longer a need for a particular service district, the city council may by resolution abolish that district. The...
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-542. Taxes authorized; rate limitation
A city may levy property taxes within defined service districts in addition to those levied throughout the city, in order to finance, provide or...
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-543. Bonds authorized
A city may incur debt under general law to finance services, facilities or functions provided within a service district. If a proposed general obligation...
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-544. Exclusion of personal property of public service corporations
There shall be excluded from any service district and the provisions of this Article shall not apply to the personal property of any public...
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-545 through 160A-549. Reserved for future codification purposes

Article 24 - Parking Authorities.

N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-550. Short title
This Article may be cited as the "Parking Authority Law." (1951, c. 779, s. 1; 1979, 2nd Sess., c. 1247, s. 44.)
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-551. Definitions
As used or referred to in this Article, unless a different meaning clearly appears from the context: (1) The term "authority" shall mean a...
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-552. Creation of authority
The city council of any city may, upon its own initiative, and shall, upon petition of 25 or more residents of the city, hold...
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-553. Appointment, removal, etc., of commissioners; quorum; chairman; vice-chairman, agents and employees
An authority shall consist of five commissioners appointed by the city council, and the city council shall designate the first chairman. No commissioner shall...
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-554. Duty of authority and commissioners
The authority and its commissioners shall be under a statutory duty to comply or cause compliance strictly with all provisions of this Article and,...
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-555. Interested commissioners or employees
No commissioner or employee of an authority shall acquire any interest direct or indirect in any parking project or in any property included or...
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-556. Purpose and powers of the authority
An authority incorporated under this Article shall constitute a public body and a body corporate and politic, exercising public powers as an agency or...
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-557. Conveyance of property by the city to the authority; acquisition of property by the city or by the authority
(a) The city may convey, with or without consideration, to the authority real and personal property owned by the city for use by the...
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-558. Contracts
The authority shall let contracts in the manner provided by law for contracts of the city. (1951, c. 779, s. 9; 1979, 2nd Sess.,...
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-559. Moneys of the authority
All moneys of the authority shall be paid to the treasurer of the city as agent of the authority, who shall designate depositories and...
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-560. Bonds legal investments for public officers and fiduciaries
The bonds are hereby made securities in which all public officers and bodies of this State and all municipalities and municipal subdivisions, all insurance...
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-561. Exemptions from taxation
It is hereby found, determined and declared that the creation of the authority and the carrying out of its corporate purposes is in all...
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-562. Tax contract by the State
The State of North Carolina covenants with the purchasers and with all subsequent holders and transferees of bonds issued by the authority pursuant to...
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-563. Actions against the authority
In every action against the authority for damages, for injuries to real or personal property, or for the destruction thereof, or for personal injuries...
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-564. Termination of authority
The city council shall have the authority to terminate the existence of the authority at any time. In the event of such termination, all...
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-565. Inconsistent provisions in other acts superseded
Insofar as the provisions of this Article are inconsistent with the provisions of any other act, general or special, the provisions of this Article...
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-566 through 160A-574. Reserved for future codification purposes

Article 25 - Public Transportation Authorities.

N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-575. Title
This Article shall be known and may be cited as the "North Carolina Public Transportation Authorities Act." (1977, c. 465; 1979, 2nd Sess., c....
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-576. Definitions
As used in this Article, unless the context otherwise requires: (1) "Authority" means a body corporate and politic organized in accordance with the provisions...
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-577. Creation; membership
A municipality may, by resolution or ordinance, create a transportation authority, hereinafter sometimes referred to as the "authority." It shall be a body corporate...
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-578. Purpose of the authority
The purpose of the authority shall be to provide for a safe, adequate and convenient public transportation system for the municipality creating the authority...
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-579. General powers of the authority
The general powers of the authority shall include any or all of the following: (1) To sue and be sued; (2) To have a...
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-580. Authority of Utilities Commission not affected
Except as otherwise provided herein, nothing in this Article shall be construed to limit or otherwise affect the power or authority of the North...
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-581. Territorial jurisdiction
The jurisdiction of the authority shall extend to all local public passenger transportation operating within the municipality. Said jurisdiction shall also extend up to...
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-582. Fiscal accountability
The authority shall be fiscally accountable to the municipality, and the municipality's governing body shall have authority to examine all records and accounts of...
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-583. Funds
The establishment and operation of a transportation authority as herein authorized are governmental functions and constitute a public purpose, and the municipality is hereby...
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-584. Effect on existing franchises and operations
In the event a transportation authority is established under the authority of this Article, any existing franchises granted by the municipality shall continue in...
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-585. Termination
The governing body of the municipality shall have the authority to terminate the existence of the authority at any time. In the event of...
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-586. Controlling provisions
Insofar as the provisions of this Article are not consistent with the provisions of any other law, public or private, the provisions of this...
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-587. Consolidation of public transportation authority and parking authority
The municipality may, by resolution or ordinance, vest in a single body corporate and politic both the powers of a public transportation authority in...
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-588. Joint provision of services
Two or more municipalities may cooperate in the exercise of any power granted by this Article according to the procedures and provisions of G.S....
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-589 through 160A-599. Reserved for future codification purposes

Article 26 - Regional Public Transportation Authority.

N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-600. Title
This Article shall be known and may be cited as the "Regional Public Transportation Authority Act." (1989, c. 740, s. 1.)
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-601. Definitions
As used in this Article, unless the context otherwise requires: (1) "Authority" means a Regional Public Transportation Authority as defined by subdivision (6) of...
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-602. Definition of territorial jurisdiction of Authority
An authority may be created for any area of the State that, at the time of creation of the authority, meets the following criteria:...
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-603. Creation of Authority
(a) The Boards of Commissioners of all three counties within an area for which an authority may be created as defined in G.S. 160A-602...
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-604. Territorial jurisdiction of the Authority
(a) The territorial jurisdiction of any authority created pursuant to this Article shall be coterminous with the boundaries of the three counties that organized...
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-605. Membership; officers; compensation
(a) The governing body of an authority is the Board of Trustees. The Board of Trustees shall consist of 13 members, appointed as follows:...
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-606. Voting; removal
(a) Six members of the Board of Trustees shall constitute a quorum for the transaction of business. Except as provided by G.S. 160A-605(a)(4), each...
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-607. Advisory committees
The Board of Trustees may provide for the selection of such advisory committees as it may find appropriate, which may or may not include...
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-607.1. Special tax board
(a) The special tax board of an authority shall be composed of two representatives from each of the counties organizing the authority appointed annually...
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-608. Purpose of the Authority
The purpose of the Authority shall be to finance, provide, operate, and maintain for a safe, clean, reliable, adequate, convenient, energy efficient, economically and...
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-609. Service area of the Authority
The service area of the Authority shall be as determined by the Board of Trustees consistent with its purpose, but shall not exceed the...
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-610. General powers of the Authority
The general powers of the Authority shall include any or all of the following: (1) To sue and be sued; (2) To have a...
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-611. Authority of Utilities Commission not affected
(a) Except as otherwise provided in this Article, nothing in this Article shall be construed to limit or otherwise affect the power or authority...
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-612. Fiscal accountability
An Authority is a public authority subject to the provisions of Chapter 159 of the General Statutes. (1989, c. 740, s. 1.)
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-613. Funds
(a) The establishment and operation of an Authority are governmental functions and constitute a public purpose, and the State of North Carolina and any...
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-613.1. Competition
No equipment of the authority may be used for charter, tour, or sight-seeing service. (1989, c. 740, s. 1.)
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-614. Effect on existing franchises and operations
Creation of the Authority shall not have an effect on any existing franchises granted by any unit of local government; such existing franchises shall...
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-615. Termination
The Board of Trustees may terminate the existence of the Authority at any time when it has no outstanding indebtedness. In the event of...
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-616. Controlling provisions
Insofar as the provisions of this Article are not consistent with the provisions of any other law, public or private, the provisions of this...
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-617. Bonds and notes authorized
In addition to the powers granted by this Article, the Authority may issue bonds and notes pursuant to the provisions of the Local Government...
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-618. Equipment trust certificates
In addition to the powers here and before granted, the Authority shall have continuing power to purchase equipment, and in connection therewith execute agreements,...
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-619. Power of eminent domain
(a) The Authority shall have continuing power to acquire, by gift, grant, devise, exchange, purchase, lease with or without option to purchase, or any...
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-620. Tax exemption
The property of the Authority, both real and personal, its acts, activities and income shall be exempt from any tax or tax obligation; in...
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-621. Removal and relocation of utility structures
(a) The Authority shall have the power to require any public utility, railroad, or other public service corporation owning or operating any installations, structures,...
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-622. Reserved for future codification purposes
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-623. Regional Transportation Authority registration tax
In accordance with Article 51 of Chapter 105 of the General Statutes, an Authority organized under this Article may levy an annual license tax...
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-624. Recommendation of additional revenue sources
The Authority may make recommendations to the General Assembly concerning additional revenue sources, including, but not limited to: (1) Annual vehicle registration fees; (2)...
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-625. Reports to the General Assembly
The Authority shall annually submit to the General Assembly, on or before February 1, its annual operating report, including a report of its administrative...
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-626. Limitations on rail transportation liability
(a) As used in this section: (1) "Claim" means a claim, action, suit, or request for damages, whether compensatory, punitive, or otherwise, made by...
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-627. Civil liability
Except as provided in G.S. 160A-626, the Authority shall be deemed a city for purposes of civil liability pursuant to G.S. 160A-485. Governmental immunity...
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-628. Reserved for future codification purposes
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-629. Reserved for future codification purposes

Article 27 - Regional Transportation Authority.

N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-630. Title
This Article shall be known and may be cited as the "Regional Transportation Authority Act." (1997-393, s. 1.)
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-631. Definitions
As used in this Article, unless the context otherwise requires: (1) "Authority" means a Regional Transportation Authority as defined by subdivision (6) of this...
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-632. Definition of territorial jurisdiction of Authority
An authority may be created for the area of any Metropolitan Planning Organization of the State that, at the time of creation of the...
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-633. Creation of Authority
(a) The city councils of the four largest cities within an area for which an authority may be created as defined in G.S. 160A-632...
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-634. Territorial jurisdiction and service area of the Authority
(a) The territorial jurisdiction and service area of the Authority shall be as determined by the Board of Trustees consistent with its purpose, but...
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-635. Membership; officers; compensation
(a) The governing body of an authority is the Board of Trustees. The Board of Trustees shall consist of: (1) The mayor of the...
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-636. Voting
A majority of the members of the Board of Trustees shall constitute a quorum for the transaction of business. Except as provided by G.S....
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-637. Advisory committees
The Board of Trustees may provide for the selection of such advisory committees as it may find appropriate, which may or may not include...
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-638. Purpose of the Authority
The purpose of the authority is to enhance the quality of life in its territorial jurisdiction by promoting the development of sound transportation systems...
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-639. General powers of the Authority
The general powers of the Authority shall include any or all of the following: (1) To sue and be sued; (2) To have a...
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-640. Authority of Utilities Commission not affected
(a) Except as otherwise provided in this Article, nothing in this Article shall be construed to limit or otherwise affect the power or authority...
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-641. Fiscal accountability
An Authority is a public authority subject to the provisions of Chapter 159 of the General Statutes. (1997-393, s. 1.)
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-642. Funds
The establishment and operation of an Authority are governmental functions and constitute a public purpose, and the State of North Carolina and any unit...
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-643. Competition
No equipment of the Authority may be used for charter, tour, or sight-seeing service. (1997-393, s. 1.)
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-644. Effect on existing franchises and operations
Creation of the Authority shall not have an effect on any existing franchises granted by any unit of local government; such existing franchises shall...
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-645. Termination
The Board of Trustees may terminate the existence of the Authority at any time when it has no outstanding indebtedness. In the event of...
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-646. Controlling provisions
Insofar as the provisions of this Article are not consistent with the provisions of any other law, public or private, the provisions of this...
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-647. Bonds and notes authorized
In addition to the powers granted by this Article, the Authority may issue bonds and notes pursuant to the provisions of The State and...
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-648. Equipment trust certificates
In addition to the powers here and before granted, the Authority shall have continuing power to purchase equipment, and in connection therewith execute agreements,...
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-649. Power of eminent domain
(a) The Authority shall have continuing power to acquire, by gift, grant, devise, exchange, purchase, lease with or without option to purchase, or any...
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-650. Tax exemption
The property of the Authority, both real and personal, its acts, activities, and income shall be exempt from any tax or tax obligation; in...
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-651. Removal and relocation of utility structures
(a) The Authority shall have the power to require any public utility, railroad, or other public service corporation owning or operating any installations, structures,...
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-652 through 160A-659. Reserved for future codification purposes

Article 28 - Regional Natural Gas District.

N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-660. Title
This Article is the "Regional Natural Gas District Act" and may be cited by that name. (1997-426, s. 2.)
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-661. Purpose; definitions
(a) The purpose of a district created under this Article is to enhance the quality of life in its territorial jurisdiction by promoting the...
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-662. Territorial jurisdiction and service area of district
(a) A district may be created for one or more entire counties that are totally unserved with natural gas and in which a specific...
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-663. Creation of district
(a) The boards of commissioners of any one or more counties within an area for which a district may be created as provided by...
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-664. Membership; officers; compensation
(a) The governing body of a district is the Board of Trustees. The Board of Trustees shall consist of members as provided in the...
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-665. Quorum
A majority of the members of the Board of Trustees shall constitute a quorum for the transaction of business. (1997-426, s. 2.)
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-666. Advisory committees
The Board of Trustees may provide for the selection of any advisory committees that it finds appropriate, which may or may not include members...
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-667. General powers of the district
The general powers of the district include all of the following: (1) To sue and be sued. (2) To have a seal. (3) To...
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-668. Fiscal accountability
A district is a public authority subject to the provisions of Chapter 159 of the General Statutes. (1997-426, s. 2.)
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-669. Funds
The establishment and operation of a district is a public purpose, and the State of North Carolina and any unit of local government may...
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-670. Effect on existing franchises and operations
Creation of the district does not affect any existing franchises granted by any unit of local government. Those existing franchises shall continue in full...
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-671. Termination of district
The Board of Trustees, after providing for the continued availability of natural gas service to its customers, if any, may terminate the existence of...
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-672. Joinder of county or city
(a) Whenever a district has been organized under the provisions of this Article, a county as defined in G.S. 160A-662(a) or a city within...
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-673. Bonds and notes authorized
The district may issue revenue bonds and revenue bond anticipation notes pursuant to the provisions of the State and Local Government Revenue Bond Act,...
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-674. Acquisition, power of eminent domain
(a) The district shall have continuing power to acquire, by gift, grant, devise, exchange, purchase, lease with or without option to purchase, or any...
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-675. Tax exemption
A district, and its property, bonds and notes, and income, are exempt from property taxes and income taxes to the same extent as if...
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-676. Authority to fix and enforce rates
(a) A district may establish and revise from time to time schedules of rents, rates, fees, charges, and penalties made applicable throughout the district...

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