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Town attorney outlines 2025 session‑law changes affecting Garner — ETJ moratorium, SBI checks and Brownfields among items
Summary
Town Attorney Terry Jones summarized 2025 session laws that could affect Garner, noting 89 session laws to date, a Wake County ETJ moratorium through Dec. 31, 2028, new SBI criminal background checks for employees working with children effective Oct. 1, Brownfields updates, and a narrow Fire Code exemption for certain low‑rise Type V buildings.
Town Attorney Terry Jones briefed the council on session‑law changes from the 2025 North Carolina legislative session that may affect municipal operations.
Jones opened by noting the volume of legislation: “there have been 89 session laws in 2025 adopted, by the general assembly,” and said the legal team grouped likely municipal impacts into five categories: land use; building code and…
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