NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1981 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 733

HOUSE BILL 1253

 

 

AN ACT TO PROVIDE AN EXTENDED DEADLINE FOR CREATION FOR FISCAL YEAR 1981-82 OF A MUNICIPAL SERVICE DISTRICT FOR BEACH EROSION CONTROL OR FLOOD OR HURRICANE PROTECTION.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

 

Section 1. G.S. 160A-537, as amended by Chapter 53, Session Laws of 1981, is further amended by adding a new subsection (e) to read:

"(e)       In the case of a resolution defining a service district, which is adopted during the period beginning July 1, 1981, and ending July 31, 1981, and which district is for any purpose defined in G.S. 160A-536(1), the city council may make the resolution effective for the fiscal year beginning July 1, 1981. In any such case, the report under subsection (b) of this section need only have been available for public inspection for at least two weeks before the date of the public hearing, and the notice required by subsection (c) of this section need only have been mailed at least two weeks before the date of the hearing."

Sec. 2. Any city defining a municipal service district under the provisions of Section 1 of this act may adopt a budget for fiscal year 1981-82 and levy a tax for such service district, separately from adoption of the city budget, as long as the budget for the service district is adopted and the tax is levied no later than July 31, 1981.

Sec. 3. This act is effective upon ratification.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 29th day of June, 1981.