North Carolina Planned Community Act

The act supplies a statutory framework for planned communities — real estate developments in which owners of individual lots are bound by shared obligations tied to commonly held or commonly used property. Its general provisions define the terms used throughout, fix which communities and arrangements fall within its reach, and set the extent to which its requirements may be varied by a community's own governing documents. It also addresses how such communities are treated for purposes of taxation, how they interact with local ordinances and building codes, how eminent domain applies to them, and which background principles of law supplement the statute where it is silent.

Editorial summary generated from the text of this act. It is not part of the statute — read the sections below for the operative language.