NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1977 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 38

HOUSE BILL 162

 

 

AN ACT TO AMEND THE CHARTER OF THE CITY OF WILSON.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

 

Section 1.  Section 12.2 of Article XII of the revised and consolidated Charter of the City of Wilson, as enacted by 1969 Session Laws Chapter 136, is hereby rewritten to read as follows:

"Section 12.2. Street improvements; when petition unnecessary. The City Council may order street improvements and assess the cost thereof, exclusive of the costs incurred at street intersections against the abutting properties at an equal rate per front foot, without the necessity of a petition, upon the finding by the council as a fact:

(a)       that such street or part hereof is unsafe for vehicular traffic and it is in the public interest to make such improvement, or

(b)       that it is in the public interest to connect two streets, or portions of a street already improved, or

(c)       that it is in the public interest to widen a street, or part thereof, which is already improved; provided that assessments for widening any street or portion of a street without petition shall be limited to the cost of widening and otherwise improving such street in accordance with the street classification and improvement standards established by the city's thoroughfare or major street plan for the particular street or part thereof to be widened and improved under the authority granted by this Article."

Sec. 2. This act shall become effective upon ratification.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 1st day of March, 1977.