Limitations on local, private, and special legislation

North Carolina Constitution (November 1970)

N.C. Const. art. II, s 24 - 24
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  (1) Prohibited subjects. The General Assembly shall not enact any local, private, or special act or resolution:

  (a) Relating to health, sanitation, and the abatement of nuisances;

  (b) Changing the names of cities, towns, and townships;

  (c) Authorizing the laying out, opening, altering, maintaining, or discontinuing of highways, streets, or alleys;

  (d) Relating to ferries or bridges;

  (e) Relating to non-navigable streams;

  (f) Relating to cemeteries;

  (g) Relating to the pay of jurors;

  (h) Erecting new townships, or changing township lines, or establishing or changing the lines of school districts;

  (i) Remitting fines, penalties, and forfeitures, or refunding moneys legally paid into the public treasury;

  (j) Regulating labor, trade, mining, or manufacturing;

  (k) Extending the time for the levy or collection of taxes or otherwise relieving any collector of taxes from the due performance of his official duties or his sureties from liability;

  (l) Giving effect to informal wills and deeds;

  (m) Granting a divorce or securing alimony in any individual case;

  (n) Altering the name of any person, or legitimating any person not born in lawful wedlock, or restoring to the rights of citizenship any person convicted of a felony.

  (2) Repeals. Nor shall the General Assembly enact any such local, private, or special act by the partial repeal of a general law; but the General Assembly may at any time repeal local, private, or special laws enacted by it.

  (3) Prohibited acts void. Any local, private, or special act or resolution enacted in violation of the provisions of this Section shall be void.

  (4) General laws. The General Assembly may enact general laws regulating the matters set out in this Section.

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