GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA

1983 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 21

HOUSE BILL 103

 

AN ACT TO PROVIDE THAT PERMITS FOR PYROTECHNIC DISPLAYS WITHIN INCORPORATED MUNICIPALITIES IN FORSYTH COUNTY SHALL BE GRANTED BY THE CITY COUNCIL INSTEAD OF THE COUNTY COMMISSIONERS, AND TO PROVIDE THAT THE COUNTY COMMISSIONERS MAY DELEGATE THEIR PERMIT GRANTING POWERS RELATING TO PYROTECHNIC DISPLAYS AND SALES OF EXPLOSIVES.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

 

Section 1.  G.S. 14-410 is amended by adding immediately after the word "discharged" the third time it appears the words "if to be exhibited, used or discharged within the county but outside the corporate limits of any municipality in the county, but if the pyrotechnics are to be exhibited, used or discharged within the corporate limits of any municipality in the county, it shall be necessary to secure such previous written authority from the governing body of the municipality".

Sec. 2.  G.S. 14-410 is further amended by adding the following new language at the end:

"For the purpose of this section, 'municipality' is any incorporated city, town, or village which levied an ad valorem tax in that year or the previous year."

Sec. 3.  G.S. 14-413 is amended by adding immediately after the word "county", the words "or the governing body of any municipality, as authorized by G.S. 14-410".

Sec. 4.  Section 3 of Chapter 117, Session Laws of 1981, is amended by deleting "Mecklenburg County", and inserting in lieu thereof "Mecklenburg and Forsyth Counties".

Sec. 5.  Sections 1, 2, and 3 of this act apply to Forsyth County only.

Sec. 6.  This act shall become effective 30 days after ratification.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 17th day of February, 1983.