NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1975 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 536

HOUSE BILL 828

 

 

AN ACT DEFINING "FREEHOLDER" FOR SANITARY DISTRICT INCORPORATION PURPOSES.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

 

Section 1.  G.S. 130-124 is hereby amended by adding at the end thereof a new sentence to read as follows:

"For purposes of a petition for incorporation of a proposed sanitary district filed by fifty‑one percent (51%) or more of the freeholders of the proposed district, whether residents therein or not, the term 'freeholders' shall mean persons holding a deed to a tract of land within the proposed district, and also shall mean persons who have entered into a contract to purchase a tract of land within the proposed sanitary district, are making payments pursuant to such contract, and will receive a deed upon completion of the contractual payments. It is the intent of this amendment that the contracting purchaser, rather than the contracting seller, shall be deemed to be the freeholder."

Sec. 2.  All laws and clauses of laws in conflict herewith are hereby repealed.

Sec. 3.  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 10th day of June, 1975.