North Carolina HB 173: Revise Controlled Substances Reporting.

Bill Text

GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA
SESSION 2025

SESSION LAW 2025-30
HOUSE BILL 173

*H173-v-5*
AN ACT TO DEANNEX CERTAIN DESCRIBED TERRITORY AND MAKE OTHER
CHANGES TO VARIOUS LOCAL LAWS.

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

PART I. TEMPORARILY LIMIT ETJ EXPANSION IN WAKE COUNTY
SECTION 1.(a) Notwithstanding G.S. 160D-202 and any other provision of law, no
municipality shall expand the territory over which that municipality may exercise any powers of
extraterritorial jurisdiction in Wake County as provided in Article 2 of Chapter 160D of the
General Statutes or its predecessor, Article 19 of Chapter 160A of the General Statutes, beyond
the territory over which the municipality exercised extraterritorial jurisdiction in Wake County
on January 1, 2025.
SECTION 1.(b) This section applies to the County of Wake only.
SECTION 1.(c) This section is effective when it becomes law and expires on
December 31, 2028.

PART II. CITY OF ASHEVILLE DEANNEXATION
SECTION 2.(a) The following described property, identified by Buncombe County
Tax Property Identification Number, is removed from the corporate limits of the City of
Asheville: 966773980500000.
SECTION 2.(b) This section has no effect upon the validity of any liens of the City
of Asheville for ad valorem taxes or special assessments outstanding before the effective date of
this section. Such liens may be collected or foreclosed upon after the effective date of this section
as though the property were still within the corporate limits of the City of Asheville.
SECTION 2.(c) This section becomes effective June 30, 2025. Property in the
territory described in this section as of January 1, 2025, is no longer subject to municipal taxes
for taxes imposed for taxable years beginning on or after July 1, 2025.

PART III. LIMIT COMMERCIAL DEVELOPMENT MORATORIA IN THE TOWN OF
TAYLORTOWN
SECTION 3.(a) G.S. 160D-107 reads as rewritten:
"§ 160D-107. Moratoria.
(a) Authority. – As provided in this section, local governments may adopt temporary
moratoria on any development approval required by law, except for the purpose of developing
and adopting new or amended plans or development regulations governing residential uses. The
duration of any moratorium shall be reasonable in light of the specific conditions that warrant
imposition of the moratorium and may not exceed the period of time necessary to correct, modify,
or resolve such conditions.
(b) Hearing Required. – Except in cases of imminent and substantial threat to public
health or safety, before adopting a development regulation imposing a development moratorium
with a duration of 60 days or any shorter period, the governing board shall hold a legislative
hearing and shall publish a notice of the hearing in a newspaper having general circulation in the

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area not less than seven days before the date set for the hearing. A development moratorium with
a duration of 61 days or longer, and any extension of a moratorium so that the total duration is
61 days or longer, is subject to the notice and hearing requirements of G.S. 160D-601.
(b1) Hearings for Commercial Development Moratoria. – In addition to the requirements
imposed under subsection (b) of this section, before adopting a development regulation imposing
a commercial development moratorium within the corporate limits or extraterritorial jurisdiction
of a municipality, the municipality shall hold two legislative hearings on different dates at the
usual place where legislative hearings are held and two legislative hearings on different dates at
a location within the area of the corporate limits or extraterritorial jurisdiction to be affected by
the moratorium. All four hearings must be held within 30 days of the final hearing.
(c) Exempt Projects. – Absent an imminent threat to public health or safety, a
development moratorium adopted pursuant to this section does not apply to any project for which
a valid building permit issued pursuant to G.S. 160D-1108 G.S. 160D-1110 is outstanding, to
any project for which a special use permit application has been accepted as complete, to
development set forth in a site-specific vesting plan approved pursuant to G.S. 160D-108.1, to
development for which substantial expenditures have already been made in good-faith reliance
on a prior valid development approval, or to preliminary or final subdivision plats that have been
accepted for review by the local government prior to the call for a hearing to adopt the
moratorium. Any preliminary subdivision plat accepted for review by the local government prior
to the call for a hearing, if subsequently approved, shall be allowed to proceed to final plat
approval without being subject to the moratorium. Notwithstanding the foregoing, if a complete
application for a development approval has been submitted prior to the effective date of a
moratorium, G.S. 160D-108(b) applies when permit processing resumes.
(d) Required Statements. – Any development