Bill Text: NC S180 | 2015-2016 | Regular Session | Amended
Bill Title: Carrboro/Housing Discrimination
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2015-03-05 - Ref To Com On Rules and Operations of the Senate [S180 Detail]
Download: North_Carolina-2015-S180-Amended.html
GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA
SESSION 2015
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SENATE BILL 180
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Short Title: Carrboro/Housing Discrimination. |
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Sponsors: |
Senator Foushee (Primary Sponsor). |
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Referred to: |
Rules and Operations of the Senate. |
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March 5, 2015
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT amending the charter of the town of carrboro to allow the town to adopt ordinances prohibiting Housing discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation, gender identification, and gender expression.
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
SECTION 1. Section 10‑1 of the Charter of the Town of Carrboro, being Chapter 476 of the 1987 Session Laws, as amended by S.L. 2009‑115, reads as rewritten:
"Section 10‑1. Housing Discrimination. The
board of aldermen may adopt ordinances designed to ensure that all housing
opportunities in the Town of Carrboro shall be equally available to all persons
without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, familial status,
or handicap.handicap, sexual orientation, gender identification, or
gender expression. Such ordinances may regulate or prohibit any act,
practice, activity or procedure related directly or indirectly to the sale or
rental of public or private housing that affects or may tend to affect the
availability or desirability of housing on an equal basis to all persons,
without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, familial status,
or handicap.handicap, sexual orientation, gender identification, or
gender expression. However, ordinances adopted pursuant to the authority
contained in this act shall not apply to the rental of rooms or units in
dwellings containing living quarters occupied or intended to be occupied by no
more than four families living independently of each other, if the owner
actually maintains and occupies one of such living quarters as his residence.
Any ordinance passed pursuant to this authorization may be enforced by any
method authorized for enforcement of ordinances generally in G.S. 160A‑175.
In addition, any ordinance adopted pursuant to this authorization may provide
that any person aggrieved by any act, practice, activity or procedure
prohibited by such ordinance may seek equitable relief in the appropriate
division of the General Court of Justice."
SECTION 2. This act becomes effective October 1, 2015.
