Proposed state legislation ‘jeopardizes’ the Outer Banks, local government officials say, from removing local authority to establishing ferry tolls. Area legislators react

Republican state Sens. Bobby Hanig and Norm Sanderson and state Reps. Ed Goodwin and Keith Kidwell (l-r) each represent sections of the Outer Banks of North Carolina in Raleigh. (Photos courtesy North Carolina General Assembly website)

By Corinne Saunders

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Representatives of seven local governments across the Outer Banks are pushing back on what they view as North Carolina General Assembly’s continuing movement toward consolidating more power at the state level, with an eighth local government board expected to pass a resolution of opposition next week.

Separately, a state Senate proposal to initiate and to increase ferry tolls has sparked Currituck, Dare and Hyde county governments to put resolutions of opposition on their meeting agendas next week.

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