AN ACT TO ALLOW THE CITIES OF CLINTON AND LUMBERTON AND THE TOWN OF FRANKLIN 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, 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 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 15th day of May, 2003.

	_____________________________________
		 Marc Basnight
	 President Pro Tempore of the Senate

	_____________________________________
		 Richard T. Morgan
	 Speaker of the House of Representatives