GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA
1995 SESSION
CHAPTER 422
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
Section 1. G.S. 130A-55 is amended by adding two new subdivisions to read:
"(23) To acquire (by purchase, lease, gift, or otherwise, but not by condemnation), construct, maintain, operate, and regulate roads and streets within the sanitary district which are not State-maintained. Not all of these powers need be exercised.
(24) To contract for security personnel or to provide for law enforcement within the district to the same extent that a city or town is authorized to provide for law enforcement pursuant to Article 13 of Chapter 160A of the General Statutes. For the purpose of this subdivision, any reference in Article 13 of Chapter 160A of the General Statutes to 'city' is to be interpreted to include a sanitary district."
Sec. 2. G.S. 130A-55(15) reads as rewritten:
"(15) To use the income of the district, and
if necessary, to levy and collect taxes upon all the taxable property within
the district sufficient to pay the costs of collecting and disposing of
garbage, waste and other refuse, and to provide fire protection and
rescue services in the district. district, to acquire, construct,
maintain, operate, and regulate roads and streets within the district which are
not State-maintained, and to provide for law enforcement within the
district. Taxes shall be levied and collected at the same time and in
the same manner as taxes for debt service as provided in G.S. 130A-62."
Sec. 3. G.S. 130A-55(24), as enacted by this act, shall expire on July 1, 1997.
Sec. 4. Effective July 1, 1997, G.S. 130A-55(15), as amended by this act, reads as rewritten:
"(15) To use the income of the district, and
if necessary, to levy and collect taxes upon all the taxable property within
the district sufficient to pay the costs of collecting and disposing of
garbage, waste and other refuse, to provide fire protection and rescue services
in the district, and to acquire, construct, maintain, operate, and
regulate roads and streets within the district, and to provide for law
enforcement within the district."
Sec. 5. G.S. 130A-56 reads as rewritten:
"§
130A-56. Election of officers; board staff. compensation.
(a) Upon election, a
sanitary district board shall meet and elect one of its members as chairperson
and another member as secretary. In sanitary districts with a population of
less than 15,000, each member of the board may receive a per diem compensaton
and other compensation as provided for members of State boards under G.S.
138-5, payable from the funds of the district.
(b) The board may employ
a clerk, stenographer clerk or other assistants as necessary and
may fix duties of and compensation for employees. A sanitary district
board may remove employees and fill vacancies.
(c) The board may, by
ordinance, fix the compensation of its members in an amount not to exceed one
hundred fifty dollars ($150.00) per month, payable from the funds of the
district, but no increase may become effective earlier than the first meeting
of the board following the next election of board members after adoption of the
ordinance. Until adoption of an ordinance under this subsection, the
compensation of members of sanitary district boards shall remain at the amount
payable by law immediately prior to March 25, 1985. This subsection applies
only to sanitary districts with a population of 15,000 or over. each
member of the board may receive compensation as provided for members of State
boards under G.S. 138-5, payable from funds of the district."
Sec. 6. This act is effective upon ratification.
In the General Assembly read three times and ratified this the 12th day of July, 1995.
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Dennis A. Wicker
President of the Senate
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Harold J. Brubaker
Speaker of the House of Representatives