North Carolina § 153A-1 - Definitions.

§ 153A-1. Definitions.

Unless otherwise specifically provided, or unless otherwise clearly required by the context, the words and phrases defined in this section have the meaning indicated when used in this Chapter. "City" means a city as defined by G.S. 160A-1(2), except that it does not include a city that, without regard to its date of incorporation, would be disqualified from receiving gasoline tax allocations by G.S. 136-41.2(a). "Clerk" means the clerk to the board of commissioners. "County" means any one of the counties listed in G.S. 153A-10. "General law" means an act of the General Assembly that applies to all units of local government, to all counties, to all counties within a class defined by population or other criteria, to all cities, or to all cities within a class defined by population or other criteria, including a law that meets the foregoing standards but contains a clause or section exempting from its effect one or more counties, cities, or counties and cities. "Local act" means an act of the General Assembly that applies to one or more specific counties, cities, or counties and cities by name. "Local act" is interchangeable with the terms "special act," "special law," "public-local act," and "private act," is used throughout this Chapter in preference to those terms, and means a local act as defined in this subdivision without regard to the terminology employed in local acts or other portions of the General Statutes. "Publish," "publication," and other forms of the verb "to publish" mean insertion in a newspaper qualified under G.S. 1-597 to publish legal advertisements in the county. History (1973, c. 822, s. 1.) Local Modification. - Guilford: 2017-210, s. 1(c) (applicable to notices published on or after December 1, 2017); New Hanover: 1983, c. 365. Editor's Note. - Session Laws 1973, c. 822, repealed Chapter 153 , Counties, and enacted in its place a new Chapter 153 A. Certain other 1973 acts originally codified in Chapter 153 are included in Chapter 153A as directed in Session Laws 1973, c. 822, s. 2. Where appropriate, the historical citations to sections in the repealed Chapter have been added to corresponding sections in new Chapter 153A . Session Laws 1973, c. 822, ss. 9 through 12, provided: "Sec. 9. No provision of this act is intended, nor may any be construed, to affect in any way a right or interest, public or private: "(a) Now vested or accrued, in whole or in part, the validity of which might be sustained or preserved by reference to a provision of law repealed by this act; or "(b) Derived from or which might be sustained or preserved in reliance upon, action (including the adoption of orders, resolutions, or ordinances) taken before the effective date of this act pursuant to or within the scope of a provision of law repealed by this act. "Sec. 10. No law repealed, expressly or by implication, before the effective date of this act and no law granting authority that has been exhausted before the effective date of this act is revived by: "(a) The repeal in this act of any act repealing such a law; or "(b) Any provision of this act that disclaims an intention to repeal or affect enumerated, designated, or described laws. "Sec. 11. No provision of this act is intended, nor may any be construed, to impair the obligation of any bond, note, or coupon outstanding on the effective date of this act. "Sec. 12. No action or proceeding of any nature (whether civil or criminal, judicial or administrative, or otherwise) pending at the effective date of this act is abated or otherwise affected by the adoption of this act." Session Laws 2017-210, s. 1(a), enacted a provision pertaining to electronic notice for notices required to be published by the governing board of Guilford County, effective December 1, 2017, applicable to notices published on or after that date, and applicable only to Guilford County and any municipality located wholly or partly in Guilford County. Legal Periodicals. - For article, "Do North Carolina Governments Need Home Rule," see 84 N.C. L. Rev. 1983 (2006).