S.L. 1979-1112

1979 SESSION

CHAPTER 1112

HOUSE BILL 1608

AN ACT TO AUTHORIZE THE CHARLOTTE MECKLENBURG UTILITIES DEPARTMENT TO PROVIDE WATER AND SEWER UTILITY SERVICES WITHIN THE CAROWINDS PROJECT BOUNDARY.

Whereas, water and sewer utility services are presently being provided to certain customers within the Carowinds Project Boundary by two small companies; and

Whereas, both companies will have to make substantial expenditures which would necessarily be reflected in the rates charged in order to continue to serve these and any additional customers within the Carowinds Project Boundary; and

Whereas, the Charlotte Mecklenburg Utilities Department can add these and any additional customers within the Carowinds Project Boundary and provide adequate and reliable water and sewer service without necessarily increasing rates of charges; and

Whereas, to authorize the Charlotte Mecklenburg Utilities Department to provide water and sewer utility services within such area will promote the best interests of citizens of North Carolina and South Carolina who patronize these six water and sewer service customers; Now, therefore,

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

Section 1. The City of Charlotte, through the Charlotte Mecklenburg Utilities Department, is hereby authorized to provide water and sewer utility services to all present and future customers who request the provision of such services within the Carowinds Project Boundary which is more specifically described as:

All lands located in Form Mill Township, York County, South Carolina, lying within 7,500 feet of the United States Coast and Geodetic Survey monument marked "Carowinds" located on the boundary between the States of North Carolina and South Carolina, said Geodetic Survey monument being located 1,650 feet North 40 degrees 15 minutes 49 seconds West from the center line of United States Highway I-77.

Sec. 2. This act shall become effective July 1, 1980.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 19th day of June, 1980.