GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA
1993 SESSION

CHAPTER 79
SENATE BILL 804

AN ACT TO EXEMPT THE TOWN OF TROY FROM CERTAIN ZONING NOTICE REQUIREMENTS.

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

Section 1.  Notwithstanding G.S. 160A-384 or any other provision of law, when a city is zoning property, in lieu of mailing a notice of the proposed zoning classification actions to any property owner or other person, a city may publish once a week for four successive calendar weeks in a newspaper having general circulation in the area a map showing the boundaries of the area which the city proposes to zone.  Such a map shall be not less than one-half of a newspaper page in size and shall be published on the dates that the notice of hearing with regard to such proposed zoning actions is published pursuant to G.S. 160A-364.  This notice shall only be effective for property owners that reside in the area of general circulation of the newspaper which publishes the notice.  Property owners who reside outside of said area, according to the address listed on the most recent property tax listing for the affected property, shall be notified by mail pursuant to G.S. 160A-384.  In addition to the published notice, a city shall post one or more prominent signs immediately adjacent to the subject area reasonably calculated to give public notice of the proposed rezoning.
Sec. 2.  This act applies only to the Town of Troy and the City of Spencer.
Sec. 3.  This act is effective upon ratification.
In the General Assembly read three times and ratified this the 25th day of May, 1993.

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Dennis A. Wicker
President of the Senate

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Daniel Blue, Jr.
Speaker of the House of Representatives