GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA

SESSION 1999

H	2 

HOUSE BILL 844
Committee Substitute Favorable 4/22/99

Short Title:  Orange County Civil Rights.	(Local)

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April 1, 1999

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT RELATING TO CLASSIFICATIONS UNDER THE ORANGE COUNTY CIVIL RIGHTS ORDINANCE.
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
Section 1.  Section 6(a) of Chapter 246 of the 1991 Session Laws, as amended by Section 14 of Chapter 358 of the 1993 Session Laws, reads as rewritten:
"(a)	The Board of Commissioners of Orange County  (hereafter 'Board of Commissioners') may adopt an ordinance (hereafter 'the Ordinance') to prohibit discrimination in employment, housing, and public accommodations on the basis of race, color, religion, gender, national origin, age, disability, marital status, familial status, veteran status, and sexual orientation.
The Board of Commissioners may include in the Ordinance a prohibition of language or conduct or both directed at an individual or at a group of individuals because of that individual's or group of individuals' actual or perceived race, color, religion, gender, national origin, age, disability, marital status, familial status, or veteran status which communicates in a threatening manner words that incite imminent lawless action or which tend to incite an immediate breach of the peace."
Section 2.  This act applies to Orange County only.
Section 3.  This act is effective when it becomes law.