GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA

SESSION 2011

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HOUSE BILL 339

Committee Substitute Favorable 4/13/11

Short Title:        Housing Authority/Collect Unpaid Rent.	(Public)
Sponsors:
Referred to:

March 15, 2011

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

AN ACT authorizing a housing authority to collect unpaid delinquent debt by setting off the debt against a state income tax refund due a tenant or former tenant of the housing authority.

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

SECTION 1.  G.S. 105A-2(6) reads as rewritten:

"(6)      Local agency. - Any of the following:

a.         A county, to the extent it is not considered a State agency.

b.         A municipality.

c.         A water and sewer authority created under Article 1 of Chapter 162A of the General Statutes.

d.         A regional joint agency created by interlocal agreement under Article 20 of Chapter 160A of the General Statutes between two or more counties, cities, or both.

e.         A public health authority created under Part 1B of Article 2 of Chapter 130A of the General Statutes or other authorizing legislation.

f.          A metropolitan sewerage district created under Article 5 of Chapter 162A of the General Statutes.

g.         A sanitary district created under Part 2 of Article 2 of Chapter 130A of the General Statutes.

h. A housing authority created under Chapter 157 of the General Statutes, provided that the debt owed to a housing authority has been reduced to a final judgment in favor of the housing authority."

SECTION 2.  This act becomes effective October 1, 2011.