GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA
SESSION 1999

SENATE BILL 1140
RATIFIED BILL

AN ACT TO BAN NEW OR REPLACEMENT BILLBOARDS ON A PORTION OF U.S. HIGHWAY 52 AND NORTH CAROLINA HIGHWAY 752 IN SURRY COUNTY.

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

Section 1.  Section 1 of Chapter 559 of the 1993 Session Laws reads as rewritten:
"Section 1.  No new or replacement outdoor advertising, as defined in G.S. 136-128(3), that is visible and intended to be read from the right-of-way of the portion of North Carolina Highway 752 and United States Highway 52 south of the airport forming a corridor through the foothills of Surry County past Pilot Mountain State Park, shall be erected on or after the effective date of this act.  No new or replacement outdoor advertising, as defined in G.S. 136-128(3), shall be erected within 660 feet of any interstate highway located in Buncombe County outside the corporate limits of a municipality."
Section 2.  This act is effective when it becomes law.
In the General Assembly read three times and ratified this the 16th day of June, 1999.

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	Dennis A. Wicker
	President of the Senate

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	James B. Black
	Speaker of the House of Representatives

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	James B. Hunt, Jr.
	Governor

Approved 	.m. this 	 day of 	, 19