GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA
1997 SESSION

S.L. 1997-414
HOUSE BILL 699

AN ACT TO GRANT AUTHORITY TO THE CITY OF GREENVILLE AND THE TOWNS OF BETHEL, FARMVILLE, AND NEWPORT TO ADDRESS ABANDONED STRUCTURES IN THE SAME MANNER AS MUNICIPALITIES IN COUNTIES WITH A POPULATION OF OVER ONE HUNDRED SIXTY-THREE THOUSAND.

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

Section 1.  Section 2 of Chapter 733 of the 1995 Session Laws, as amended by S.L. 1997-101, reads as rewritten:
"Sec. 2.  This act applies to the Cities of Greenville, Lumberton, and Roanoke Rapids and the Towns of Bethel, Farmville, and Newport only."
Section 2.  This act is effective when it becomes law.
In the General Assembly read three times and ratified this the 21st day of August, 1997.
s/	Marc Basnight
President Pro Tempore of the Senate

s/	Harold J. Brubaker
Speaker of the House of Representatives