GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA
SESSION 1999
SESSION LAW 2000-73
AN ACT TO PROVIDE THAT AN ENTERPRISE TIER TWO AREA MAY NOT BE REDESIGNATED AS A HIGHER-NUMBERED TIER AREA UNTIL IT HAS BEEN AN ENTERPRISE TIER TWO AREA FOR TWO CONSECUTIVE YEARS.
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
Section 1. G.S. 105-129.3(c) reads as rewritten:
"(c) Exception for
Enterprise Tier One and Two Areas. - Notwithstanding the provisions of
this section, a county designated as an enterprise tier one area or
an enterprise tier two area may not be redesignated as a higher-numbered
enterprise tier area until it has been an in its enterprise tier one
area for at least two consecutive years."
Section 2. This act is effective when it becomes law and, notwithstanding G.S. 105-129.3(b), applies retroactively to designations for the 2000 and later calendar years.
In the General Assembly read three times and ratified this the 30th day of June, 2000.
s/ Marc Basnight
President Pro Tempore of the Senate
s/ James B. Black
Speaker of the House of Representatives
s/ James B. Hunt, Jr.
Governor
Approved 10:06 p.m. this 30th day of June, 2000