NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1963 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 385

HOUSE BILL 600

 

 

AN ACT TO AMEND FURTHER G. S. 160-241, AS AMENDED BY CHAPTERS 369 AND 895, SESSION LAWS OF 1961, SO AS TO PROVIDE ALTERNATE METHODS OF ASSESSING THE COST OF EXTENDING WATER AND SEWER LINES WITHIN PARCELS OF LAND SUBDIVIDING INTO LOTS, TO BE APPLICABLE TO THE TOWN OF CHAPEL HILL.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

 

Section 1. That the General Statutes of North Carolina, Section 160-241, as amended by Chapters 369 and 895 of the Session Laws of 1961, be and the same is hereby further amended by adding at the end of said Section, as amended, the following:

"Provided, within areas of land which have been subdivided into lots, the governing body of the municipality, if in its opinion it would be more equitable to do so, may, as alternate methods of assessing the total cost of the extension of a water or sewer line, or both, to, within or through any of said areas, apportion the cost chargeable to such area either (1) equally against each of the lots capable of being served by such extension or (2) on the basis of the frontage of such lots upon a public street by an equal rate per foot of such frontage. When such sewerage and water lines are constructed along both sides of corner lots, the short side of said corner lot, not in excess of 75 feet thereof, may be eliminated in determining the amount of assessment."

Sec. 2. This Act shall apply only to the Town of Chapel Hill.

Sec. 3. All laws and clauses of laws in conflict herewith are hereby repealed.

Sec. 4. This Act shall become effective from and after its ratification.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 7th day of May, 1963.