GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA
1989 SESSION

CHAPTER 213
SENATE BILL 607

AN ACT TO ALLOW THE CITY OF ASHEVILLE AND BUNCOMBE COUNTY TO JOINTLY CREATE THE ASHEVILLE-BUNCOMBE FAIR HOUSING COMMISSION.

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

Section 1.  Section 1 of Chapter 776, Session Laws of 1985, reads as rewritten:
"Section 1. (a) The City Council of the City of Asheville may adopt ordinances to create an Asheville Fair Housing Commission.  The Asheville Fair Housing Commission shall have jurisdiction to enforce the State Fair Housing Act, Chapter 41A of the General Statutes, in the City of Asheville and shall have jurisdiction over the subject matter of any complaint filed under G.S. 41A-7 relating to property located in the City of Asheville or to an unlawful discriminatory housing practice occurring in the City of Asheville.
(b)	The City Council of the City of Asheville and the Board of Commissioners of Buncombe County may jointly adopt ordinances to create an Asheville-Buncombe Fair Housing Commission.  The Asheville-Buncombe Fair Housing Commission shall have jurisdiction to enforce the State Fair Housing Act, Chapter 41A of the General Statutes, in the City of Asheville and in areas of Buncombe County not in the corporate limits of a city as defined by G.S. 160A-1, and shall have jurisdiction over the subject matter of any complaint filed under G.S. 41A-7 relating to property located in the City of Asheville and in areas of Buncombe County not in the corporate limits of a city as defined by G.S. 160A-1, or to an unlawful discriminatory housing practice occurring in the City of Asheville and in areas of Buncombe County not in the corporate limits of a city as defined by G.S. 160A-1.  Such jointly adopted ordinances may provide for the abolition of the Asheville Fair Housing Commission and the transfer of all proceedings pending before it to the Asheville-Buncombe Fair Housing Commission, or merely for the redesignation of the Asheville Fair Housing Commission as the Asheville-Buncombe Fair Housing Commission with the expanded jurisdiction provided by the subsection and Section 2(b) of this act."
Sec. 2.  Section 2 of Chapter 776, Session Laws of 1985, reads as rewritten:
"Sec. 2. (a) The Asheville Fair Housing Commission shall have the same powers and duties as are granted to the North Carolina Human Relations Council in Chapter 41A of the General Statutes.
(b)	The Asheville-Buncombe Fair Housing Commission shall have the same powers and duties as are granted to the North Carolina Human Relations Council in Chapter 41A of the General Statutes."
Sec. 3.  This act is effective upon ratification.
In the General Assembly read three times and ratified this the 5th day of June, 1989.