GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA
1993 SESSION

CHAPTER 559
HOUSE BILL 1158

AN ACT TO PROHIBIT THE ERECTION OF OUTDOOR ADVERTISING ON A PORTION OF U.S. HIGHWAY 52 AND NORTH CAROLINA HIGHWAY 752 IN SURRY COUNTY AND TO PROHIBIT THE ERECTION OF OUTDOOR ADVERTISING ON ANY INTERSTATE HIGHWAY IN BUNCOMBE COUNTY OUTSIDE THE LIMITS OF A MUNICIPALITY.

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

Section 1.  No outdoor advertising, as defined in G.S. 136-128(3), that is visible and intended to be read from the right-of-way of the portion of North Carolina Highway 752 and United States Highway 52 south of the airport forming a corridor through the foothills of Surry County past Pilot Mountain State Park, shall be erected on or after the effective date of this act.  No new or replacement outdoor advertising, as defined in G.S. 136-128(3), shall be erected within 660 feet of any interstate highway located in Buncombe County outside the corporate limits of a municipality.
Sec. 2.  Section 1 of this act shall not apply to outdoor advertising described in G.S. 136-129(1), (2), or (3).
Sec. 3.  This act is effective upon ratification.
In the General Assembly read three times and ratified this the 24th day of May, 1994.

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Dennis A. Wicker
President of the Senate

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Daniel Blue, Jr.
Speaker of the House of Representatives