NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1973 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 190

SENATE BILL 460

 

AN ACT TO AMEND G.S. 160A-226 TO AUTHORIZE THE CITY OF SALISBURY TO ASSESS THE COST OF EXTENDING WATER AND SEWER LINES AGAINST PROPERTY TO BE BENEFITED BY SUCH LINES ON AN AVERAGE COST BASIS.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

 

Section 1. G.S. 160A-226 is hereby amended by adding at the end thereof the following:

"In lieu of assessing the total actual cost of a particular project as herein provided, the governing body may annually between the first days of January and July of each year, determine the average cost of installing water and sewer mains or lines and on the basis of such determination may make assessments of such average cost during the following fiscal year beginning July 1. The average cost of such installation shall include the cost of the particular size and material of lines completed during the preceding calendar year. It may also include the anticipated increase in labor and materials costs during the preceding five calendar years. The assessment of the average cost of such line shall not be made until after the particular assessment project has been completed. The purpose of this act is to distribute more equitably the cost of the installation of water and sewer lines throughout the city; to permit a property owner to know in advance what the cost of installation of water or sewer line benefiting his property will be; and to permit the more expenditious assessment of cost against property after completion of the installation of such lines."

Sec. 2. The actual cost of the acquisition of right-of-way may also be assessed as a part of the cost of an individual project. If the right-of-way costs have not been determined and assessed with the assessment of the average installation costs at the time of the completion of the project such costs may be assessed separately when they have been determined.

Sec. 3. This act shall apply only to the City of Salisbury.

Sec. 4. All laws and clauses of laws in conflict with this act are hereby repealed.

Sec. 5. This act shall be in full force and effect from and after its ratification.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 16th day of April, 1973.