§ 14-288.17. Municipal and county ordinances may be made immediately effective if state of emergency exists or is imminent. - North Carolina Statutes

§14‑288.17.  Municipal and county ordinances may be made immediatelyeffective if state of emergency exists or is imminent.

(a)        Notwithstanding anyother provision of law, whether general or special, relating to thepromulgation or publication of ordinances by any municipality or county, thissection shall control with respect to any ordinances authorized by G.S. 14‑288.11and 14‑288.12.

(b)        Upon proclamationby the mayor or chairman of the board of county commissioners that a state ofemergency exists within the municipality or the county, or is imminent, anyordinance enacted under the authority of this article shall take effectimmediately unless the ordinance sets a later time. If the effect of thissection is to cause an ordinance to go into effect sooner than it otherwisecould under the law applicable to the municipality or county, the mayor orchairman of the board of county commissioners, as the case may be, shall takesteps to cause reports of the substance of any such ordinance to be disseminatedin a fashion that such substance will likely be communicated to the public ingeneral, or to those who may be particularly affected by the ordinance if itdoes not affect the public generally. As soon as practicable thereafter,appropriate distribution or publication of the full text of any such ordinanceshall be made. (1969, c. 869, s. 1.)