GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA

1987 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 75

HOUSE BILL 272

 

AN ACT TO REMOVE THE LIMITATION ON THE LENGTH OF STREETS THE TOWN OF TROUTMAN MAY MAKE IMPROVEMENTS ON AND ASSESS FOR THE COSTS WITHOUT PETITION.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

 

Section 1.  Section 9.2 of the Charter of the Town of Troutman, being Chapter 144, Session Laws of 1981, reads as rewritten:

 "Sec. 9.2.  When petition unnecessary.  The Board of Aldermen may order street improvements and assess the cost thereof, exclusive of the costs incurred at street intersections against the abutting property owners, according to one or more of the assessment bases set forth in Article 10 of Chapter 160A  of the North Carolina General Statutes, without the necessity of a petition, upon the finding by the Board as a fact:

 (a)      That the street improvement project does not exceed 1,200 linear feet, and

(b)       That such street or part thereof is unsafe for vehicular traffic and it is in the public interest to make such improvement, or

(c)       That it is in the public interest to connect two streets, or portions of a street already improved, or

(d)       That it is in the public interest to widen a street, or part thereof, which is already improved; provided, that assessments for widening any street or portion of street without a petition shall be limited to the cost of widening and otherwise improving such street in accordance with the street classification and improvement standards established by the Town's thoroughfare or major street plan for the particular street or part thereof to be widened and improved under the authority granted by this Article."

Sec. 2.  This act is effective upon ratification.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified this the 17th day of April, 1987.