NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1963 SESSION

CHAPTER 434

SENATE BILL 343

AN ACT AMENDING CHAPTER 224 OF THE PRIVATE LAWS OF 1927 ENTITLED "AN ACT CONFERRING POWER ON CERTAIN CITIES AND TOWNS TO MAKE CERTAIN LOCAL IMPROVEMENTS AND PRESCRIBING THE PROCEDURE THEREFOR AND FOR THE ASSESSMENT OF ALL OR A PART OF THE COST THEREOF", AS AMENDED, AS THE SAME RELATES TO THE CITY OF WINSTON-SALEM.

The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

Section 1. Chapter 224 of the Private Laws of 1927, as amended, is hereby further amended as follows:

(a)       By striking Section 8 of said Act as amended, and by rewriting same to read as follows:

"Sec. 8. When Petition Unnecessary. The governing body of any municipality may, without petition of the property owner, order the making of any one or more of the following local improvements authorized by this Act whenever the governing body is of the opinion that the public health, safety or general welfare of the municipality will be promoted thereby or requires that such improvement or improvements be made, and that the abutting property will be benefited by such improvement or improvements to the extent of the part of the cost thereof to be assessed against the abutting property: water main improvements, storm sewer improvements, sanitary sewer improvements, street paving improvements, and sidewalk improvements."

(b)       By striking out the word "ten" in line six of Section 22 of said Act and by inserting the word "twenty" in lieu thereof.

Sec. 2. All laws and clauses of laws in conflict with this Act are hereby repealed.

Sec. 3. This Act shall apply only to the City of Winston-Salem.

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 15th day of May, 1963.