North Carolina Constitution

Article II, § 24 — Limitations on local, private, and special legislation

North Carolina Const. art. II, § 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 ofnuisances; (b) Changing the names of cities, towns, andtownships; (c) Authorizing the laying out, opening, altering, maintaining, or discontinuing of highways, streets, oralleys; (d) Relating to ferries orbridges; (e) Relating to non-navigablestreams; (f) Relating tocemeteries; (g) Relating to the pay ofjurors; (h) Erecting new townships, or changing township lines, or establishing or changing the lines of schooldistricts; (i) Remitting fines, penalties, and forfeitures, or refunding moneys legally paid into the publictreasury; (j) Regulating labor, trade, mining, ormanufacturing; (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 fromliability; (l) Giving effect to informal wills anddeeds; (m) Granting a divorce or securing alimony in any individualcase; (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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