GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA

1983 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 925

SENATE BILL 662

 

AN ACT TO ALLOW SANITARY DISTRICTS TO MAKE ASSESSMENTS AGAINST BENEFITTED PROPERTY FOR WATER AND SEWER PROJECTS.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

 

Section 1.  G.S. 130-128 is amended by adding a new subdivision to read:

"(23)   To make special assessments against benefitted property within the corporate limits of the sanitary district and within the area served or to be served by the sanitary district for the purpose of constructing, reconstructing, extending, or otherwise improving water systems or sanitary collection, treatment, and sewage disposal systems, in the same manner that a county may make special assessments under authority of Article 9 of Chapter 153A of the General Statutes, except that the language appearing in G.S. 153A-185 reading as follows: 'A county may not assess property within a city pursuant to subdivision (1) or (2) of this section unless the governing board of the city has by resolution approved the project,' shall not apply to assessments levied by sanitary districts. For the purposes of this paragraph, references in Article 9 of Chapter 153A of the General Statutes, to the 'county,' the 'board of county commissioners,' 'the board' or a specific county official or employee are deemed to refer respectively to the sanitary district and to the official or employee of the sanitary district who performs most nearly the same duties performed by the specified county official or employee.

Assessment rolls after being confirmed shall be filed for registration in the office of the Register of Deeds of the county in which the property being assessed is located, and the term 'county tax collector' wherever used in G.S. 153A-195 and G.S. 153A-196, shall mean the officer designated by the sanitary district to perform the functions described in said sections of the statute. This subdivision applies only to sanitary districts with a population of 15,000 or over."

Sec. 2.  Effective January 1, 1984, G.S. 120-128(23) is recodified as G.S. 130A-55(22).

Sec. 3.  This act is effective upon ratification.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 22nd day of July, 1983.