Bill Summaries: H626 (2017-2018 Session)

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  • Bill H 626 (2017-2018)
    Summary date: Apr 6 2017 - View summary

    Enacts new GS 153A-340(b)(4) to further authorize counties to adopt zoning regulations governing poultry farms with an animal waste management system having a design capacity of 150,000 or more confined poultry, provided that the zoning regulations may not have the effect of excluding those farms from the entire zoning jurisdiction. Makes conforming changes.

    Amends GS 160A-360(k) to subject property within a municipality's extraterritorial jurisdiction that contains an agricultural operation under GS 153A-340(b)(3) (certain swine farms) or new (b)(4) to the exercise of the municipality's extraterritorial jurisdiction.

    Applies to poultry farms constructed on or after July 1, 2017.
    Agriculture, Development, Land Use and Housing, Land Use, Planning and Zoning, Government, Local Government

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