Bill Text: NC H646 | 2013-2014 | Regular Session | Chaptered


Bill Title: Airports Exempt From Local Tree Ordinances

Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Republican 9-1)

Status: (Passed) 2013-07-23 - Ch. SL 2013-331 [H646 Detail]

Download: North_Carolina-2013-H646-Chaptered.html

GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA

SESSION 2013

 

 

SESSION LAW 2013-331

HOUSE BILL 646

 

 

AN ACT to prohibit a county or city from enforcing any ordinance that regulates the trimming or removal of trees on property owned or operated by a public airport authority.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

 

SECTION 1.  G.S. 153A‑123 is amended by adding a new subsection to read:

"(h)       Notwithstanding any authority under this Article or any local act of the General Assembly, no ordinance regulating trees may be enforced on land owned or operated by a public airport authority."

SECTION 2.  G.S. 160A‑175 is amended by adding a new subsection to read:

"(h)       Notwithstanding any authority under this Article or any local act of the General Assembly, no ordinance regulating trees may be enforced on land owned or operated by a public airport authority."

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

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified this the 18th day of July, 2013.

 

 

                                                                    s/  Daniel J. Forest

                                                                         President of the Senate

 

 

                                                                    s/  Thom Tillis

                                                                         Speaker of the House of Representatives

 

 

                                                                    s/  Pat McCrory

                                                                         Governor

 

 

Approved 4:26 p.m. this 23rd day of July, 2013

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