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Town attorney summarizes 2025 session laws affecting Garner
Summary
Town Attorney Terry Jones outlined 2025 session laws with potential municipal impacts, including a Wake County ETJ moratorium through Dec. 31, 2028, new background-check rules for employees working with children effective Oct. 1, and changes to police separation allowances and personnel-file access.
Town Attorney Terry Jones provided an overview of 2025 session laws during the Sept. 16 council meeting, summarizing measures with potential municipal impact in five categories: land use, building code and regulatory fees, transportation, town employees, and laws affecting police officers.
Jones highlighted a moratorium on extraterritorial jurisdiction (ETJ) expansions in Wake County, effective June and remaining in place through Dec. 31, 2028, which prohibits municipalities from expanding ETJs beyond their Jan. 1, 2025 extent. She also summarized an amendment to the state's Brownfields Property Reuse Act (effective July 1) and a new…
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