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N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-77 (2026)

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(a) Not later than July 1, 1974, each city having a population of 5,000 or more shall adopt and issue a code of its ordinances. The code may be reproduced by any method that gives legible and permanent copies, and may be issued as a securely bound book or books with periodic separately bound supplements, or as a loose-leaf book maintained by replacement pages. Supplements or replacement pages should be adopted and issued annually at least, unless no additions to or modifications of the code have been adopted by the council during the year. The code may consist of two separate parts, the "General Ordinances" and the "Technical Ordinances." The technical ordinances may be published as separate books or pamphlets, and may include ordinances regarding the construction of buildings, the installation of plumbing and electric wiring, the installation of cooling and heating equipment, the use of public utilities, buildings, or facilities operated by the city, the zoning ordinance, the subdivision control ordinance, the privilege license tax ordinance, and other similar technical ordinances designated as such by the council. The council may omit from the code designated classes of ordinances of limited interest or transitory nature, but the code should clearly describe the classes of ordinances omitted therefrom.

(b) The council may provide that one or more of the following classes of ordinances shall be codified by appropriate entries upon official map books to be retained permanently in the office of the city clerk or some other city office generally accessible to the public:

(1) Establishing or amending the boundaries of zoning districts;

(2) Designating the location of traffic control devices;

(3) Designating areas or zones where regulations are applied to parking, loading, bus stops, or taxicab stands;

(4) Establishing speed limits;

(4a) Restricting or regulating traffic at certain times on certain streets, or to certain types, weights or sizes of vehicles;

(5) Designating the location of through streets, stop intersections, yield-right-of-way intersections, waiting lanes, one-way streets, or truck traffic routes; and

(6) Establishing regulations upon vehicle turns at designated locations.

(b1) The council may provide that the classes of ordinances described in paragraphs (2) through (6) of subsection (b) above, and ordinances establishing rates for utility or other public enterprise services, or ordinances establishing fees of any nature, shall be codified by entry upon official lists or schedules of the regulations established by such ordinances, or schedules of such rates or fees, to be maintained in the office of the city clerk.

(c) It is the intent of this section to make uniform the law concerning the adoption of city codes. To this end, all charter provisions in conflict with this section in effect as of January 1, 1972, are expressly repealed, except to the extent that the charter makes adoption of a code mandatory, and no local act taking effect on or after January 1, 1972, shall be construed to repeal or amend this section in whole or in part unless it shall expressly so provide by specific reference. (1971, c. 698, s. 1; 1979, 2nd Sess., c. 1247, ss. 8, 9.)

 

Notes of Decisions
Cited in 7 cases (1 in the last 5 years), 1977–2023 · leading case: Pinehurst Area Realty, Inc. v. Vill. of Pinehurst, 394 S.E.2d 251 (N.C. Ct. App. 1990).
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Pinehurst Area Realty, Inc. v. Vill. of Pinehurst, 394 S.E.2d 251 (N.C. Ct. App. 1990). · cites it 2× “The allegation is based on the purported failure by defendant to file and index properly the map which demonstrated the zoning boundaries in accordance with the G.S. § 160A-77. Since this question was not raised during the trial and no information regarding this issue is…”
Shearl v. Town of Highlands, 762 S.E.2d 877 (N.C. Ct. App. 2014). · cites it 2× “See N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-77 (2013) (stating that the governing board of a town “may provide that [ordinances establishing or amending the boundaries of zoning districts] shall be codified by appropriate entries upon official map books to be retained permanently in the office…”
Pinehurst Area Realty v. Pinehurst, 394 S.E.2d 251 (N.C. Ct. App. 1990). · cites it 2× “The allegation is based on the purported failure by defendant to file and index properly the map which demonstrated the zoning boundaries in accordance with the G.S. § 160A-77. Since this question was not raised during the trial and no information regarding this issue is…”
In re Jacobs, 234 S.E.2d 639 (N.C. Ct. App. 1977). · cites it 2× “160A-79 provides that, in all civil and criminal cases, a city ordinance that has been codified in a code of ordinances in compliance with G.S. 160A-77 must be pleaded by both section number and caption while a city ordinance that has not been codified must be pleaded by its…”
Pitt Cnty. v. Deja Vue, Inc., 650 S.E.2d 12 (N.C. Ct. App. 2007). “References to G.S. 160A-77 and G.S. 160A-78 appearing in G.”
State v. Miller (N.C. Ct. App. 2023). “§ 160A-79(a) provides that “[i]n all civil and criminal cases a city ordinance that has been codified in a code of ordinances adopted and issued in compliance with G.S. 160A-77 must be pleaded by both section number and caption.”
Johnson v. Town of Longview, 245 S.E.2d 516 (N.C. Ct. App. 1978). · cites it 2× “*63 Plaintiffs first contend that the ordinance cannot be enforced because it had not been “codified or filed and indexed in accordance with G.S. 160A-77 or 160A-78.” See G.S. 160A-79(d).”
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