GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA

SESSION 2009

SESSION LAW 2010-77

HOUSE BILL 1944

AN ACT to authorize the town of bermuda run to Assess gate operation and maintenance fees and to place liens on real property for unpaid fees that may be collected as delinquent property taxes.

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

SECTION 1.  The Town of Bermuda Run shall have the authority to assess a fee for the costs of gate operations and fence maintenance on all real property situated in the area of the town which is zoned Club Residential.  The fee shall be established annually and incorporated into the local budget ordinance. 

SECTION 2.  A fee assessed under this act shall be a lien on the real property on which it has been assessed as of the date of the billing of the fee and shall be collected as delinquent property taxes.  However, the lien shall not be enforced under the collection methods set out in the Machinery Act of North Carolina until such time as the fee remains unpaid for a period of 30 days from the date of its initial billing.

SECTION 3.  This act is effective when it becomes law.  Any unpaid fees previously billed by the Town of Bermuda Run for gate operations and fence maintenance shall be a lien on the real property on which the fees were assessed as of the effective date of this act and may be enforced under the provisions of this act no sooner than 30 days after the date this act becomes law.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified this the 8^th day of July, 2010.

                                                                    s/  Walter H. Dalton

                                                                         President of the Senate

                                                                    s/  Joe Hackney

                                                                         Speaker of the House of Representatives