Terms Used In North Carolina General Statutes > Chapter 113A > Article 9 - Land Policy Act

• Appellate: About appeals; an appellate court has the power to review the judgement of another lower court or tribunal.
• Areas of environmental concern: means : those areas of this State where uncontrolled development, unregulated use, or other man-related activities could result in major or irreversible damage to important environmental, historic, cultural, scientific or scenic values, or natural systems or  processes which are of more than local significance, or could unreasonably endanger life or property as a result of natural hazards, or could result in loss of continued long-range productivity in renewable resource areas. See North Carolina General Statutes 113A-152
• following: when used by way of reference to any section of a statute, shall be construed to mean the section next preceding or next following that in which such reference is made; unless when some other section is expressly designated in such reference. See North Carolina General Statutes 12-3
• Key facilities: means public facilities which tend to induce development and urbanization of more than local impact and includes, but is not limited to, major facilities for the development, generation, and transmission of energy, for communication, and for transportation. See North Carolina General Statutes 113A-152
• Local government: means any county, incorporated village, town, or city, or any combination of counties, incorporated villages, towns, and cities, acting through a joint program pursuant to the provisions of this Article. See North Carolina General Statutes 113A-152
• New communities and large-scale developments: means private development which, because of its magnitude or the magnitude of its effect on the surrounding environment, is likely to present issues of more than local significance. See North Carolina General Statutes 113A-152
• Obligation: An order placed, contract awarded, service received, or similar transaction during a given period that will require payments during the same or a future period.
• Precedent: A court decision in an earlier case with facts and law similar to a dispute currently before a court. Precedent will ordinarily govern the decision of a later similar case, unless a party can show that it was wrongly decided or that it differed in some significant way.
• property: shall include all property, both real and personal. See North Carolina General Statutes 12-3
• regional: means or refers to one or more of the  official planning regions established pursuant to the laws of this State. See North Carolina General Statutes 113A-152
• state: when applied to the different parts of the United States, shall be construed to extend to and include the District of Columbia and the several territories, so called; and the words "United States" shall be construed to include the said district and territories and all dependencies. See North Carolina General Statutes 12-3
• United States: shall be construed to include the said district and territories and all dependencies. See North Carolina General Statutes 12-3