A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT authorizing the city of raleigh, THE TOWN OF HOLLY SPRINGS, AND WAKE COUNTY to LIMIT the CLEAR‑cutting of trees in buffer zones prior to development and allow for the protection of specimen trees during the development process.
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
SECTION 1.  Section 4 of S.L. 2001‑191 reads as rewritten:
"SECTION 4.(a)  This act shall apply only to the Cities of Durham and Raleigh and the Towns of Cary, Garner, Holly Springs, Morrisville, Knightdale, Fuquay‑Varina, and Spencer and to property located within the municipality's corporate limits and extraterritorial planning jurisdiction under Article 19 of Chapter 160A of the General Statutes.
SECTION 4.(b)  This act also applies to the County of Wake as to property not located within the corporate limits or extraterritorial planning jurisdiction of a municipality under Article 19 of Chapter 160A of the General Statutes. For the purpose of this subsection, the powers granted to a municipality by Sections 1 and 2 of this act are granted to the county."
SECTION 2.  This act is effective when it becomes law.