Currituck County v. Willey

HILL, Judge.

The issue we must decide on appeal is whether the ordinance barring mobile homes, such as defendant’s with dimensions of less than 24' x 60', must be struck down as violative of the equal pro tection clause of the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, or Article I, § 19 of the North Carolina Constitution. We find no violation.

‘A municipal ordinance is presumed to be valid, and the burden is upon the complaining party to show its invalidity or inapplicability. And a municipal ordinance promulgated in the exercise of the police power will not be declared…