GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA
SESSION 1999

SESSION LAW 1999-174
HOUSE BILL 615

AN ACT TO ALLOW THE CITY OF ELIZABETH CITY TO REGULATE THE SPEED OF VESSELS WITHIN THE CITY.

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

Section 1.  A city may adopt ordinances to regulate and control the speed of vessels in waterways within its boundaries or within its extraterritorial jurisdiction, as that term is used in Article 19 of Chapter 160A of the General Statutes.
Section 2.  If the City of Elizabeth City adopts ordinances to regulate and control the speed of vessels as authorized in Section 1 of this act, the City of Elizabeth City, or its designee, shall place and maintain markers in accordance with the Uniform Waterway Marking System and any supplementary standards for such system adopted by the Wildlife Resources Commission.  All markers regulating and controlling the speed of vessels shall be buoys or floating signs placed in the water and must be sufficient in number and size as to give adequate warning of the speed limit to the vessels approaching from various directions.
Section 3.  This act applies only to the City of Elizabeth City.
Section 4.  This act is effective when it becomes law and is enforceable after markers complying with Section 2 of this act are placed in the water.
In the General Assembly read three times and ratified this the 9th day of June, 1999.

s/	Dennis A. Wicker
President of the Senate

s/	James B. Black
Speaker of the House of Representatives