NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1981 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 668

HOUSE BILL 698

 

AN ACT TO ALLOW THE CITY OF MARION TO SUBMIT PLANS FOR WATER AND SEWER IMPROVEMENTS WITHOUT THE SEAL OF A REGISTERED PROFESSIONAL ENGINEER.  

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

 

Section 1.  Notwithstanding any provision of the General Statutes, or any rule or regulation of a State agency, plans for water or sewer line replacement or extensions prepared by the City of Marion shall not be required to bear the seal of a registered professional engineer if no federal or State funds will be used to finance the project, the project will be constructed by regular employees of the city, the project will not exceed 1,000 feet in the length of the water or sewer line, the project does not include any pumping or lift station or sewer force main, and provided that no extension on an extension be made within one year.  This section shall apply only to water lines of six inches or less and/or sewer lines of eight inches or less.

Sec. 2. This act is effective upon ratification.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 24th day of June, 1981.