EXCEPTIONS AS TO NEWSPAPER PUBLICATION OF CODE OF ORDINANCES.
Raleigh City Charter, art. II, § 2.9
in effectSec. 2.9 - EXCEPTIONS AS TO NEWSPAPER PUBLICATION OF CODE OF ORDINANCES.
(a) Notwithstanding the provisions of the foregoing section [2.8], ordinances establishing regulations for the construction of buildings, the installation of plumbing, the installation of electric wiring, or any similar construction code, and any other lengthy ordinances such as a zoning ordinance or a traffic code or a license tax ordinance or code, revised, rewritten and adopted as a code, need not be published in a newspaper as provided by §2.8 of this act, provided that the ordinance adopting any such code or lengthy ordinance shall prescribe that the ordinance or code shall be published in printed or mimeographed form for distribution.
(b) In lieu of making publication of any such ordinance or code referred to in this section in a daily newspaper published in the City of Raleigh, there shall be published in at least one (1) daily newspaper of general circulation in the City of Raleigh a notice describing the ordinance or code in brief and general terms and stating that the ordinance or code is available for public inspection at the office of the City Clerk and that such ordinance or code will take effect twenty days after such publication of the notice unless submitted to referendum, in which event it will not take effect unless approved as required by law.
Source: City of Raleigh, North Carolina, City Code and City Charter (Municode Library, library.municode.com)URL: https://library.municode.com/nc/raleigh/codes/code_of_ordinances?nodeId=DIVICH_ARTIILEGOBOGEPO_S2.9EXNEPUCOORFetched: 11/1/2026