Prior districts unaffected. Validation of prior creations and actions. Nonprofit institutions of higher education excluded.

(b) The provisions of this part shall not apply to any property owned by a nonprofit institution of higher education, for as long as a nonprofit institution of higher education owns such property. Cited. 171 C. 199; 189 C. 727. Subsec. (a): Validation of the Farmington Historic District by statute rendered moot the basis for complaint. 189 C. 727. Subsec. (b): Where express exceptions are made, legal presumption is legislature did not intend to save other cases from operation of statute; the enactment of section indicates that legislature, when it desires to do so, knows how to exempt specific kinds of educational institutions from historic district regulation. 284 C. 838.