A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT to allow lands owned by the town of wrightsville beach to be used for the benefit of the public and to allow the town to regulate certain private businesses operating on those lands.
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
SECTION 1.  Section 1 of Chapter 246 of the Public Laws of 1939, as amended by Chapter 618 of the Session Laws of 1981 and Section 1 of S.L. 2018‑103, reads as rewritten:
"Section 1.  That all land filled in, restored, and made, and to be filled in, restored and made, as the result of the recitals in preamble of this Act, which will exist between the present Eastern property line of the lot owners at present bordering on said ocean, and the low water mark of the Atlantic Ocean, after the work referred to in the preamble hereof, is completed, shall be within the corporate limits of the Town of Wrightsville Beach, and so much of said lands so filled in, restored and made, which will lie West of the property line to be defined and determined by Section Two of this Act, is hereby granted and conveyed in fee simple to the land owner, to the extent that his land abuts thereon, and the balance of said land lying East of said building line, to be fixed and determined by Section Two of this Act, is hereby granted and conveyed in fee simple to the Town of Wrightsville Beach; provided, however, that said made and built up land lying East of the property line to be defined and set out in Section Two of this Act shall be used only for public purposes, except as otherwise provided herein, as the governing authorities of the Town of Wrightsville Beach, by ordinance, shall determine; and provided further that the governing authorities of the Town of Wrightsville Beach are authorized, but not required, to license and regulate the operation of private businesses on the made and built up land lying East of the property line to be defined and set out in Section Two of this Act; and provided further that if any such property as is hereby granted and conveyed to the Town of Wrightsville Beach, shall cease to be used for the purposes or in the manner prescribed in this Act, it shall revert and become the property of the State of North Carolina, and provided further that the owners of the property abutting on said newly made or constructed land, shall, in front of their said property, possess and keep their rights, as if littoral owners, in the waters of the Atlantic Ocean, bordering on said newly acquired and constructed land."
SECTION 2.  This act is effective when it becomes law.