GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA
SESSION 1999

SENATE BILL 1275
RATIFIED BILL

AN ACT TO EXTEND THE MORATORIUM ON NEW BILLBOARDS ALONG A DESIGNATED SECTION OF INTERSTATE 40, AS RECOMMENDED BY THE ENVIRONMENTAL REVIEW COMMISSION.

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

Section 1. The moratorium on the erection of outdoor advertising along the portion of Interstate Highway 40 from the Orange-Alamance County line to the municipal limits of the City of Wilmington, imposed by S.L. 1999-436, is extended. The moratorium imposed by this section shall not apply to outdoor advertising described in subdivisions (1), (2), and (3) of G.S. 136-129.
Section 2.  A moratorium is imposed on the issuance of permits for the construction of new outdoor advertising along the portion of Interstate Highway 40 from the Orange-Alamance County line to the municipal limits of the City of Wilmington.  The moratorium imposed by this section shall not apply to outdoor advertising described in subdivisions (1), (2), and (3) of G.S. 136-129.
Section 3. This act becomes effective July 1, 2000, and expires July 1, 2001.
In the General Assembly read three times and ratified this the 7th day of July, 2000.

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	Marc Basnight
	President Pro Tempore of the Senate

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	James B. Black
	Speaker of the House of Representatives

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	James B. Hunt, Jr.
	Governor

Approved 	.m. this 	 day of 	, 2000