GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA

SESSION 2011

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HOUSE BILL 279*

Short Title:        ETJ/Wake Municipal Farm Exemption.		(Local)
Sponsors:	Representatives Jackson, Dollar, Weiss, and Martin (Primary Sponsors). For a complete list of Sponsors, see Bill Information on the NCGA Web Site.
Referred to:	Government.

March 10, 2011

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

AN ACT to allow municipalities in wake county to exempt bona fide farms from obtaining building permits for accessory buildings in its extraterritorial jurisdiction.

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

SECTION 1.  G.S. 160A-360 is amended by adding a new subsection to read:

"(k) A municipality may provide in its zoning ordinance that an accessory building of a 'bona fide farm' as defined by G.S. 153A-340(b) has the same exemption from the building code as it would have under county zoning as provided by Part 3 of Article 18 of Chapter 153A of the General Statutes. "

SECTION 2.  This act applies only to the City of Raleigh and the Towns of Apex, Cary, Fuquay-Varina, Garner, Holly Springs, Knightdale, Morrisville, Rolesville, Wake Forest, Wendell, and Zebulon.

SECTION 3.  This act is effective when it becomes law.