NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1973 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 1073

HOUSE BILL 1489

 

 

AN ACT TO AUTHORIZE ENFORCEMENT OF CHAPTER 62 AND OF THE RULES, REGULATIONS AND ORDERS OF THE UTILITIES COMMISSION.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

 

Section 1.  Section 310 of Chapter 62 of the General Statutes of North Carolina is hereby amended by designating the present G.S. 62-310 as paragraph (a) under G.S. 62-310 and by adding a new paragraph (b) as follows:

"(b)      If any person or corporation shall furnish water or sewer utility service in violation of any provision of this Chapter applicable to water or sewer utilities, except as to the reasonableness of rates or charges and the discriminatory character thereof, or shall provide such service in violation of any rule, regulation or order of the Commission, the Commission shall apply to the resident Superior Court Judge of any judicial district where such person or corporation so operates, or to any Superior Court Judge holding court in such judicial district, for the enforcement of any provision of this Chapter or of any rule, regulation or order of the Commission. The court shall have jurisdiction to enforce obedience to this Chapter or to any rule, regulation or order of the Commission by appropriate writ, order or other process restraining such person, corporation, or their representatives from further violation of this Chapter or of any rule, regulation or order of the Commission."

Sec. 2.  Except as herein amended, the provisions of Chapter 62 of the General Statutes of North Carolina shall remain in full force and effect. To the extent that other laws or clauses of laws are in conflict with the provisions of this act, such laws and clauses are, to that extent, hereby repealed.

Sec. 3.  This act shall become effective on October 1, 1974.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 1st day of April, 1974.