GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA
1983 SESSION

CHAPTER 614 
HOUSE BILL 1147 

AN ACT TO INCREASE THE VALUE OF WORK THAT MAY BE DONE WITHOUT A BUILDING PERMIT FOR SMALL JOBS. 

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

Section 1.  The next to the last sentence of G.S.  160A- 417 is amended by deleting "twenty-five hundred dollars ($2500)" and substituting "five thousand dollars ($5,000)". 
Sec. 2.  The next to the last sentence of G.S.  153A-357 is amended by deleting "twenty-five hundred dollars ($2500)" and substituting "five thousand dollars ($5,000)". 
Sec. 3.  The fourth paragraph of G.S. 143-138(b) is amended by deleting "twenty-five hundred dollars ($2500)" and substituting "five thousand dollars ($5,000)". 
Sec. 4.  A county may by ordinance require that when a property owner improves property at a cost of more than twenty- five hundred dollars ($2500) but less than five thousand dollars ($5,000), the property owner must, within 14 days after the completion of the work, submit to the County Tax Supervisor a statement setting forth the nature of the improvement and the total cost thereof. 
Sec. 5.  This act shall not apply to Wilson, Nash and Edgecombe Counties. 
Sec. 6.  This act is effective upon ratification. 
In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 24th day of June, 1983.