NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1973 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 951

HOUSE BILL 1068

 

 

AN ACT TO AMEND ARTICLE 12 OF CHAPTER 130 TO PROVIDE FOR THE DISSOLUTION OF CERTAIN SANITARY DISTRICTS.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

 

Section 1.  Article 12, Chapter 130 is hereby amended by adding a new section to read as follows:

"§ 130-156.4.  Dissolution of sanitary districts; referendum. — In counties having a population in excess of 275,000, the Board of County Commissioners may dissolve a sanitary district by first requiring a referendum in which the voters of said county shall favor said dissolution and assumption by the county of any outstanding indebtedness of the district. The Board of County Commissioners may further dissolve any sanitary district which has no outstanding indebtedness when the members of such district shall vote in favor of dissolution.

Provided however, before the dissolution of any district shall be approved, a plan for continued operation and provision of all services and functions then being performed or rendered by the district shall be adopted and approved by the Board of County Commissioners.

Provided further, no plan shall be adopted unless at the time of its adoption any water system or sanitary sewer system being operated by the district shall be in compliance with all local, State and federal regulations, and if said system is to be serviced by any municipality, the municipality shall first approve the plan.

When all actions relating to dissolution of the sanitary district have been completed, the chairman of the board of county commissioners shall so notify the State Board of Health."

Sec. 2.  This act shall become effective upon ratification.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 7th day of March, 1974.