GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA

SESSION 2013

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HOUSE BILL 557

Short Title:        Utilities/MI-Connection/Service Area.		(Local)
Sponsors:	Representative R. Brawley (Primary Sponsor). For a complete list of Sponsors, refer to the North Carolina General Assembly Web Site.
Referred to:	Government, if favorable, Public Utilities and Energy.

April 4, 2013

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

AN ACT revising the service area in which the joint agency created by the cities of davidson and mooresville, known as mi-connection, may provide communications service.

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

SECTION 1.  G.S. 160A-340.2 reads as rewritten:

"§ 160A-340.2.  Exemptions.

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(c)        The provisions of G.S. 160A-340.1, 160A-340.3, 160A-340.4, 160A-340.5, and 160A-340.6 do not apply to a city or joint agency providing communications service as of January 1, 2011, provided the city or joint agency limits the provision of communications service to any one or more of the following:

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(3)        The following service areas:

a.         For the joint agency operated by the cities of Davidson and Mooresville, the service area is the combined areas of the city of Cornelius; the town of Troutman; the town of Huntersville; the unincorporated areas of Mecklenburg County north of a line beginning at Highway 16 along the west boundary of the county, extending eastward along Highway 16, continuing east along Interstate 485, and continuing eastward to the eastern boundary of the county along Eastfield Road; and the unincorporated areas of Iredell County south of Interstate 40, excluding Statesville and the extraterritorial jurisdiction of Statesville. The service area also includes the economic development sites, public safety facilities, governmental facilities, and educational schools and colleges located within the corporate boundaries of the City of Statesville and the corridors between Mooresville and Statesville and these sites, facilities, schools, and colleges. The corridors between these municipalities and these sites, facilities, schools, and colleges include only the area necessary to provide service to these municipalities, and these sites, facilities, schools, and colleges and shall not be wider than 300 feet. The Iredell County Board of County Commissioners shall vote to approve service extension to any governmental economic development site, governmental facility, school, or college owned by Iredell County. The Iredell County School Board shall also vote to approve service extension to its schools.

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SECTION 2.  This act is effective when it becomes law.