NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1959 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 66

SENATE BILL 29

 

 

AN ACT AMENDING THE CHARTER OF THE BOARD OF LIGHT AND WATER COMMISSIONERS OF THE CITY OF CONCORD.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

 

Section 1. That Chapter 71, Private Laws of 1905, as amended by Chapter 265, Private Laws of 1935 and Chapter 1180, Session Laws of 1955, be and the same is hereby further amended by adding at the end of Section 6(c) thereof another subsection to be numbered Section 6(d) and reading as follows:

"Sec. 6(d). The Board of Light and Water Commissioners of the City of Concord is hereby authorized and empowered:

(1)       To fix and collect rates, fees and charges for the use of and for the services and facilities furnished or to be furnished in the form of electrical and water service to be paid by the owner, tenant or occupant of each lot or parcel of land which may be served by such electrical and water facilities, and to revise such schedule of rates, fees and charges from time to time; to fix and collect charges for tapping the water lines; and to fix and collect a different schedule of rates, fees and charges for the use of electrical, water and tapping services when rendered or made outside the corporate limits of the City of Concord, but said Board of Light and Water Commissioners shall in no case be compelled to furnish electrical or water services outside the corporate limits of the City of Concord, or be liable for damages for failure to furnish the same. Such rates, fees and charges are to be uniform, just and equitable and based upon methods of computation adopted by the Board of Light and Water Commissioners.

(2)       To fix the times when rates, fees and charges for electrical and water services shall become due and payable, and in case such rates, fees and charges are not paid within ten days after becoming due, the same may at any time thereafter be collected by suit brought in the name of said board. Upon the failure of the owner, tenant or occupant of property for which services are furnished to pay the rates, fees and charges when due, then said board or its agent or employees may cut off the service to such property; and when so cut off, it shall be unlawful for any person, firm or corporation other than said board or its agents or employees to turn on the services to such property.

(3)       To require a deposit by an owner, tenant or occupant of the premises to which electrical or water services are to be rendered and to fix the amount thereof, which said deposit shall be applied toward the payment of any delinquent rents, fees or charges due the said board by said owner, tenant or occupant for said electrical or water services."

Sec. 2. All laws and clauses of laws in conflict with the provisions of this Act are hereby repealed.

Sec. 3. This Act shall be in full force and effect on and after its ratification.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 13th day of March, 1959.