GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA
1995 SESSION

CHAPTER 84
HOUSE BILL 651

AN ACT TO ALLOW THE TOWNS OF KILL DEVIL HILLS, KITTY HAWK, NAGS HEAD, AND SOUTHERN SHORES TO REGULATE NOISE IN THE ATLANTIC OCEAN AND OTHER WATERWAYS ADJACENT TO THAT PORTION OF THE TOWNS WITHIN THEIR BOUNDARIES OR WITHIN THEIR EXTRATERRITORIAL JURISDICTION.

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

Section 1.  G.S. 160A-184 reads as rewritten:
"§ 160A-184.  Noise regulation.
(a)	A city may by ordinance regulate, restrict, or prohibit the production or emission of noises or amplified speech, music, or other sounds that tend to annoy, disturb, or frighten its citizens.
(b)	A city may by ordinance regulate, restrict, or prohibit the production or emission of noises or amplified speech, music, or other sounds that tend to annoy, disturb, or frighten its citizens that are produced or emitted in, on, or from the Atlantic Ocean and other waterways adjacent to that portion of the city within its boundaries or within its extraterritorial jurisdiction."
Sec. 2.  This act applies to the Towns of Kill Devil Hills, Kitty Hawk, Nags Head, and Southern Shores only.
Sec. 3.  This act is effective upon ratification.
In the General Assembly read three times and ratified this the 16th day of May, 1995.

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Dennis A. Wicker
President of the Senate

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Harold J. Brubaker
Speaker of the House of Representatives