---
type: "Bill"
title: "City/County Planning Clarification."
description: "City/County Planning Clarification."
jurisdiction: "us/states/nc"
legislature: "North Carolina General Assembly"
session: "2005"
identifier: "SB 518"
citation: "North Carolina SB 518 (2005)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["COUNTIES", "COUNTY COMMISSIONERS", "LOCAL GOVERNMENT", "MUNICIPALITIES", "PLANNING & ZONING", "PRESENTED", "PUBLIC", "RATIFIED", "SEN. CLODFELTER", "CHAPTERED"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: []
version_count: 6
action_count: 19
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2005-03-10"
last_action: "2005-09-22"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/a1c10e07-6fad-4cc7-a11f-d5d1d7cdaf0d"
source_url: "http://www.ncleg.net/gascripts/BillLookUp/BillLookUp.pl?Session=2005&BillID=S518&votesToView=all"
source_hash: "912ba02c6fa5574c538822c05863fbf04bf3bf79d723054140b382da68016695"
vintage: "2026-07-01"
source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
confidence: "reported"
tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-nc"]
---

# North Carolina SB 518 (2005) — City/County Planning Clarification.

## Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. **Filed** (filed) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2005/Bills/Senate/PDF/S518v0.pdf)
2. **Edition 1** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2005/Bills/Senate/PDF/S518v1.pdf)
3. **Edition 2** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2005/Bills/Senate/PDF/S518v2.pdf)
4. **Edition 3** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2005/Bills/Senate/PDF/S518v3.pdf)
5. **Ratified** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2005/Bills/Senate/PDF/S518v4.pdf)
6. **SL2005-418** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2005/Bills/Senate/PDF/S518v5.pdf)

## Votes

- Motion 8\To Concur — **45–0** (pass) · upper
- Second Reading — **111–1** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Clodfelter — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.

- **2005-09-22** Ch. SL 2005-418 `became-law`
- **2005-09-22** Signed By Gov. 9/22/2005 `executive-signature`
- **2005-08-26** Pres. To Gov. 8/24/2005 `executive-receipt`
- **2005-08-24** Ratified
- **2005-08-24** Concurred In H/com Sub `amendment-passage`
- **2005-08-24** Placed On Cal For 8/24/2005
- **2005-08-24** Rec To Concur H Com Sub
- **2005-08-24** Passed 2nd & 3rd Reading `passage, reading-2, reading-3`
- **2005-08-24** Placed On Cal For 8/24/2005
- **2005-08-23** Cal Pursuant Rule 36(b)
- **2005-08-23** Reptd Fav Com Substitute `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2005-06-02** Ref To Com On Rules, Calendar, and Operations of the House `referral-committee`
- **2005-06-02** Rec From Senate
- **2005-05-31** Passed 2nd & 3rd Reading `passage, reading-2, reading-3`
- **2005-05-26** Placed On Cal For 5/31/2005
- **2005-05-26** Com Substitute Adopted
- **2005-05-26** Reptd Fav Com Substitute `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2005-03-15** Ref To Com On Judiciary I `referral-committee`
- **2005-03-10** Filed `introduction`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/a1c10e07-6fad-4cc7-a11f-d5d1d7cdaf0d`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official North Carolina legislature records).