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31 <br />"(cl) The regulations may also provide that the board of adjustment, the planning board, <br />or the board of commissioners may issue special use permits or conditional use permits in the <br />classes of cases or situations and in accordance with the principles, conditions, safeguards, and <br />procedures specified therein and may impose reasonable and appropriate conditions and <br />safeguards upon these permits. Where appropriate, the conditions may include requirements <br />that street and utility rights -of -way be dedicated to the public and that recreational space be <br />provided. When deciding special use permits or conditional use permits, the board of county <br />commissioners or planning board shall follow quasi-judicial procedures. Notice of hearings on <br />special or conditional use permit aplications shall be as provided in G.S. 160A- 388(a2). No <br />vote greater than a majority vote shall be required for the board of county commissioners or <br />planning board to issue such permits. For the purposes of this section, vacant positions on the <br />board and members who are disqualified from voting on a quasi-judicial matter shall not be <br />considered "members of the board" for calculation of the requisite majority. Every such <br />decision of the board of county commissioners or planning board shall be subject to review of <br />the superior court in the nature of certiorari consistent with G.S. 153A- 345." <br />SECTION 6. G.S. 153A -44 reads as rewritten: <br />"§ 153A -44. Members excused from voting. <br />The board may excuse a member from voting, but only upon questions involving the <br />member's own financial interest or official conduct or on matters on which the member is <br />prohibited from voting under G.S. 14 -234, 153A- 340(g), or 153A 3^- el- 6I A- 388(e)(2). <br />For purposes of this section, the question of the compensation and allowances of members of <br />the board does not involve a member's own financial interest or official conduct." <br />SECTION 7. G.S. 153A- 336(a) reads as rewritten: <br />"(a) When a subdivision ordinance adopted under this Part provides that the decision <br />whether to approve or deny a preliminary or final subdivision plat is to be made by a board of <br />commissioners or a planning board, other than a planning board comprised solely of members <br />of a county planning staff, and the ordinance authorizes the board of commissioners or <br />planning board to make a quasi-judicial decision in deciding whether to approve the <br />subdivision plat, then that quasi-judicial decision of the board of commissioners or planning <br />board shall be subject to review by the superior court by proceedings in the nature of certiorari. <br />The provisions of G.S. 153A- 340(f), 153A 345(e4,160A- 388(e2�(21, and 153A -349 shall <br />apply to those appeals." <br />SECTION 8. G.S. 153A- 340(cl) reads as rewritten: <br />"(cl) The regulations may also provide that the board of adjustment, the planning board, <br />or the board of commissioners may issue special use permits or conditional use permits in the <br />classes of cases or situations and in accordance with the principles, conditions, safeguards, and <br />procedures specified therein and may impose reasonable and appropriate conditions and <br />safeguards upon these permits. Where appropriate, the conditions may include requirements <br />that street and utility rights -of -way be dedicated to the public and that recreational space be <br />provided. When deciding special use permits or conditional use permits, the board of county <br />commissioners or planning board shall follow quasi-judicial procedures. No vote greater than a <br />majority vote shall be required for the board of county commissioners or planning board to <br />issue such permits. For the purposes of this section, vacant positions on the board and members <br />who are disqualified from voting on a quasi-judicial matter shall not be considered "members <br />of the board" for calculation of the requisite majority. Every such decision of the board of <br />county commissioners or planning board shall be subject to review of the superior court in the <br />nature of certiorari consistent with G.S. 153A G.S. 160A- 388." <br />SECTION 9. G.S. 153A- 349(c) is repealed. <br />SECTION 10. G.S. 153A- 349.8(c) reads as rewritten: <br />"(c) If the developer fails to cure the material breach within the time given, then the local <br />government unilaterally may terminate or modify the development agreement; provided, the <br />notice of termination or modification may be appealed to the board of adjustment in the manner <br />provided by G.S. 153 } G.S. 160A- 388(bl )." <br />SECTION 11. G.S. 160A -75 reads as rewritten: <br />"§ 160A -75. Voting. <br />No member shall be excused from voting except upon matters involving the consideration <br />of the member's own financial interest or official conduct or on matters on which the member is <br />prohibited from voting under G.S. 14 -234, 160A- 381(d), or 160A 388(el 160A- 388(e)(2). In <br />all other cases, a failure to vote by a member who is physically present in the council chamber, <br />Page 6 Session Law 2013 -126 SL2013 -126 <br />