NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1971 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 895

SENATE BILL 370

 

 

AN ACT TO AMEND G.S. 62-3(23)a.2. TO REDUCE THE NUMBER OF CUSTOMERS CONSTITUTING AN EXEMPTION FOR WATER UTILITY COMPANIES.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

 

Section 1.  G.S. 62-3(23)a.2. is hereby amended by striking out the proviso beginning immediately after the semicolon on line 4 of said subsection, and by inserting in lieu thereof the following: "provided, however, that the term 'public utility' shall not include any person or company whose sole operation consists of selling water to less than 10 residential customers, except that any person or company which constructs a water system in a subdivision with plans for ten or more lots and which holds itself out by contracts or other means at the time of said construction to serve an area containing more than 10 residential building lots shall be a public utility at the time of such planning or holding out to serve such 10 or more building lots, without regard to the number of actual customers connected."

Sec. 2.  This act shall be in full force and effect from and after October 15, 1971.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 16th day of July, 1971.