AN ACT to allow the town of garner to declare residential buildings in community development target areas unsafe and to demolish those buildings using the same process authorized for the demolition of unsafe nonresidential buildings.

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

SECTION 1.  Section 4 of S.L. 2002‑118, as amended by S.L. 2003‑23 and S.L. 2003‑42, reads as rewritten:
"SECTION 4. Sections 1 and 2 of this act apply to the Cities of Clinton, Durham, Fayetteville, Goldsboro, High Point, and Lumberton, and the Towns of Garner, Franklin, Hope Mills and Spring Lake only."
SECTION 2.  This act is effective when it becomes law.
In the General Assembly read three times and ratified this the 14th day of June, 2004.

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		 Beverly E. Perdue
	 President of the Senate

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		 Richard T. Morgan
	 Speaker of the House of Representatives