A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT to allow the town of chapel hill to regulate or prohibit new irrigation systems for residential and nonresidential developments used for lawns and landscaping that are connected to the public potable water supply.
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
SECTION 1.  A municipality may by ordinance regulate or prohibit, in new subdivisions and other new residential and new nonresidential development within its corporate limits and extraterritorial planning jurisdiction, underground irrigation systems that are connected to the local public potable water supply system.  For the purposes of this section, an underground irrigation system includes any piping system installed below ground level for the purpose of providing water distribution for lawns, shrubbery, and other landscaping and vegetation through spray, drip, filtration, or other similar method of discharge.
SECTION 2.  This act applies to the Town of Chapel Hill only.
SECTION 3.  This act is effective when it becomes law and applies to development for which a permit application has been submitted on or after that date.