NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1963 SESSION

CHAPTER 142

HOUSE BILL 208

AN ACT TO AMEND G. S. 156-93.1 RELATING TO DRAINAGE DISTRICTS IN BEAUFORT COUNTY.

The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

Section 1. G. S. 156-93.1 is hereby amended by adding a new subsection at the end thereof, to be designated as subsection (8), and to read as follows:

"(8)     The board of commissioners may levy assessments not to exceed a total of five dollars ($5.00) for each acre of land within the district for the purpose of improvement, renovation, enlargement, and extension of the canals or structures of the district in anticipation of revenue to be derived from special assessments as hereinafter set out and defined. The total of such assessment for any one year shall not be in excess of one dollar ($1.00) for each acre in the district. The board of commissioners is further authorized to borrow money in anticipation of such assessment. Authority for the levy above set out shall be requested in the form of a petition in the proceeding by virtue of which the district was organized, and it shall be directed to the Clerk of the Superior Court and signed by the commissioners. The clerk shall thereafter give ten (10) days' notice of the day, hour, and place of a hearing by mailing such notice to the landowners listed on the assessment roll at their last known addresses, also causing notice to be posted at five (5) public places within the district; and also make at least one (1) publication in a newspaper either published within the county or generally circulated therein. On the day and hour appointed for the said hearing, the clerk shall hear evidence and either accept or reject the petition. If the petition be approved, the clerk shall issue an order in the proceeding authorizing the commissioners to make the levy prayed for in the petition and to borrow money if so requested. Any landowner objecting shall have the right to appeal to the Superior Court."

Sec. 2. This Act shall apply only to Beaufort County.

Sec. 3. All laws and clauses of laws in conflict with this Act are hereby repealed.

Sec. 4. 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 2nd day of April, 1963.