Bill Summary – FastDemocracy

FILED SENATE
                                                                                        Apr 6, 2021
                         GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA
                                                                S.B. 599
                                     SESSION 2021           PRINCIPAL CLERK
     S                                                                   D
                              SENATE BILL DRS35005-MH-4*
     Short Title:   Clarify Terminal Groin Definition.                                         (Public)
     Sponsors:      Senator Steinburg (Primary Sponsor).
     Referred to:
 1                                    A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 2   AN ACT TO CLARIFY THAT A TERMINAL GROIN IS NOT AN EROSION CONTROL
 3      STRUCTURE AND THEREFORE IS NOT SUBJECT TO LIMITATIONS ON THOSE
 4      STRUCTURES.
 5   The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
 6             SECTION 1. G.S. 113A-115.1(a) reads as rewritten:
 7      "(a) As used in this section:The following definitions apply in this section:
 8             (1)   "Erosion control structure" means a Erosion control structure. – A breakwater,
 9                   bulkhead, groin, jetty, jetty (other than a jetty that is a terminal groin or a
10                   portion of a terminal groin), revetment, seawall, or any similar structure.
11             (1a) "Estuarine shoreline" means all Estuarine shoreline. – All shorelines that are
12                   not ocean shorelines that border estuarine waters as defined in
13                   G.S. 113A-113(b)(2).
14             (2)   "Ocean shoreline" means the Ocean shoreline. – The Atlantic Ocean, the
15                   oceanfront beaches, and frontal dunes. The term "ocean shoreline" includes
16                   an ocean inlet and lands adjacent to an ocean inlet but does not include that
17                   portion of any inlet and lands adjacent to the inlet that exhibits characteristics
18                   of estuarine shorelines.
19             (3)   "Terminal groin" means one Terminal groin. – One or more structures
20                   constructed at the terminus of an island or on the side of an inlet, with a main
21                   stem generally perpendicular to the beach shoreline, that is primarily intended
22                   to protect the terminus of the island from shoreline erosion and inlet migration.
23                   A "terminal groin" shall be pre-filled with beach quality sand and allow sand
24                   moving in the littoral zone to flow past the structure. A "terminal groin" may
25                   include other design features, such as a number of smaller supporting
26                   structures, that are consistent with sound engineering practices and as
27                   recommended by a professional engineer licensed to practice pursuant to
28                   Chapter 89C of the General Statutes. A "terminal groin" is not a jetty."
29             SECTION 2. This act is effective when it becomes law.
                                    *DRS35005-MH-4*
Statutes affected: 
Filed: 113A-115.1
Edition 1: 113A-115.1