NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1979 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 804

HOUSE BILL 1436

 

 

AN ACT TO GRANT WATER AND SEWER AUTHORITIES ESTABLISHED PURSUANT TO CHAPTER 162A, ARTICLE 1, OF THE GENERAL STATUTES, AUTHORITY TO MAKE SPECIAL ASSESSMENTS AGAINST BENEFITED PROPERTY.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

 

Section 1.  G.S. 162A-6 is amended:

(1)  by renumbering paragraph (15) as paragraph (16); and

(2)  by inserting therein two new paragraphs, which shall be numbered subsection (15) and shall read as follows:

"(15)    To make special assessments against benefited property within the area served or to be served by the authority for the purpose of constructing, reconstructing, extending, or otherwise improving water systems or sanitary collection, treatment, and sewage disposal systems, in the same manner that a county may make special assessments under authority of Chapter 153A, Article 9, except that the language appearing in G.S. 153A-185 reading as follows: 'A county may not assess property within a city pursuant to subdivision (1) or (2) of this section unless the governing board of the city has by resolution approved the project', shall not apply to assessments levied by Water and Sewer Authorities established pursuant to Chapter 162A, Article 1, of the General Statutes. For the purposes of this paragraph, references in Chapter 153A, Article 9, to the 'county', the 'board of county commissioners', 'the board' or a specific county official or employee are deemed to refer, respectively, to the authority and to the official or employee of the Authority who performs most nearly the same duties performed by the specified county official or employee.

      Assessment rolls after being confirmed shall be filed for registration in the office of the Register of Deeds of the county in which the property being assessed is located, and the term 'county tax collector' wherever used in G.S. 153A-195 and G.S. 153A-196, shall mean the Executive Director or other administrative officer designated by the Authority to perform the functions described in said sections of the statute."

Sec. 2.  This act is effective upon ratification.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 6th day of June, 1979.