NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1963 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 1103

SENATE BILL 1178

 

 

AN ACT TO AMEND G. S. 160-241 SO AS TO MAKE CLEAR THAT THE PROVISIONS OF G. S. 160-242 THROUGH G. S. 160-248 RELATING TO THE PROCEDURE FOR ASSESSMENT BY MUNICIPALITIES OF THE COSTS OF CERTAIN SEWERAGE AND WATERWORKS IMPROVEMENTS APPLY ONLY IN CASES IN WHICH THE GOVERNING BODY OF A MUNICIPALITY HAS DETERMINED IN ITS DISCRETION TO ASSESS SUCH COSTS AGAINST ABUTTING PROPERTY.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

 

Section 1. G. S. 160-241, as the same appears in the 1961 Cumulative Supplement to Volume 3C of the General Statutes, is hereby amended by adding at the end thereof the following: "In the event that the governing body of the City of High Point determines in its discretion to assess the costs of any sewerage or waterworks improvement upon property abutting such improvements pursuant to the provisions of this Section, the procedures set out in § 160-242 through 160-248 shall apply."

Sec. 2. None of the provisions of Chapter 224 of the Private Laws of 1927 or of any other local Act shall be construed to require the city council of the City of High Point to assess the costs or any portion of the costs of any local improvement upon property abutting such improvement. It is the intent of this Act to authorize the city council to determine in its discretion whether assessment of the costs of local improvements shall be made against abutting property in all cases in which assessment of such cost is authorized by law.

Sec. 3. The provisions of this Act shall apply to the City of High Point in Guilford County only.

Sec. 4. All laws and clauses of laws in conflict with this Act are hereby repealed.

Sec. 5. 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 21st day of June, 1963.