NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1963 SESSION

CHAPTER 328

SENATE BILL 214

AN ACT TO AMEND THE CHARTER OF THE CITY OF GOLDSBORO, NORTH CAROLINA, AS REVISED, REORGANIZED AND AMENDED BY CHAPTER 447 OF THE SESSION LAWS OF 1961.

The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

Section 1. Article 17, entitled "Planning, Zoning and Building Regulations", of Chapter 447, Session Laws of 1961, is amended by rewriting subsection (b) of Section 3 to read as follows:

"(b)     The requirements may provide, in lieu of the completion prior to the final approval of a plat of such work and installation on land within the area over which the city is authorized by law to exercise platting or subdivision control, for an assessment under this Charter or under Article 9 of Chapter 160 of the General Statutes or other statutory authorization whereby the city may do the work and make the installations at the cost of the owners of the property within the subdivision."

Sec. 2. Article 17 of Chapter 447, Session Laws of 1961, is further amended by adding at the end thereof a new Section, to be numbered Section 4, and to read as follows:

"Sec. 4. All of the provisions of this Article and of any other laws granting planning, zoning and building regulatory powers to the City of Goldsboro, together with any ordinances passed by the board of aldermen of the city in the exercise of such powers, shall be applicable to and enforceable against all public utilities and other public service corporations."

Sec. 3. Article 18, entitled "Local Improvements and Assessments for Local Improvements", of Chapter 447, Session Laws of 1961, is amended by rewriting the first sentence of subsection (a), of Section 7, to read as follows:

"After the board determines to make the improvements proposed, it shall adopt a resolution which shall contain:".

Sec. 4. Article 18 of Chapter 447, Session Laws of 1961, is further amended by deleting the words "the amount of each assessment" from the nineteenth line of Section 11 thereof.

Sec. 5. All laws and clauses of laws in conflict with this Act are hereby repealed.

Sec. 6. This Act shall be in full force and effect from and after its ratification.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 1st day of May, 1963.