NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1963 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 315

HOUSE BILL 338

 

 

AN ACT TO AUTHORIZE THE CITY OF RALEIGH TO ASSESS THE COST OF EXTENDING WATER AND SEWER LINES AGAINST PROPERTY TO BE BENEFITTED BY SUCH LINES ON AN AVERAGE COST BASIS,

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

 

Section 1. That Section 1 of Chapter 895, Session Laws of 1961, be amended by adding at the end thereof the following:

"In lieu of assessing the total actual cost of a particular project as herein provided the governing body may annually between the first days of January and July of each year determine the average cost of installing water and sewer mains or lines and on the basis of such determination may make assessments of such average cost during the following fiscal year beginning July 1. The average cost of such installation shall include the cost of the particular size and material of lines completed during the preceding calendar year. It may also include the anticipated increase in labor and materials costs during the preceding five calendar years. The assessment of the average cost of such line shall not be made until after the particular assessment project has been completed. The purpose of this Act is to distribute more equitably the cost of the installation of water and sewer lines throughout the city; to permit a property owner to know in advance what the cost of installation of water or sewer line benefitting his property will be; and to permit the more expeditious assessment of cost against property after completion of the installation of such lines."

Sec. 2. The actual cost of the acquisition of rights of way may also be assessed as a part of the cost of an individual project. If the right of way costs have not been determined and assessed with the assessment of the average installation costs at the time of the completion of the project such costs may be assessed separately when they have been determined.

Sec. 3. This Act shall apply only to the City of Raleigh.

Sec. 4. All laws and clauses of laws in conflict with this Act are hereby repealed.

Sec. 5. 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 1st day of May, 1963.