GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA

1983 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 189

HOUSE BILL 462

 

AN ACT TO ALLOW MECKLENBURG COUNTY TO INCLUDE STORM DRAINAGE REPAIRS AND IMPROVEMENTS AND STREET LIGHTING AS SPECIAL ASSESSMENTS.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

 

Section 1.  G.S. 153A-185 is amended by adding after subdivision (4) the following new subdivisions:

"; (5)    Constructing, reconstructing, extending, and otherwise building or improving storm sewer and drainage systems; provided that no assessment may be made under this subdivision unless the county, before adoption of the preliminary assessment resolution under G.S. 153A-190, has received a petition requesting the construction, reconstruction, extension, building, or improving, signed by at least seventy-five percent (75%) of the owners of property to be assessed; (6) Installing, erecting and operating street lighting on residential, commercial and industrial streets; provided that no assessment may be made under this subdivision unless the county, before adoption of the preliminary assessment resolution under G.S. 153A-190, has received a petition requesting the installation, erection, or operation, signed by at least seventy-five percent (75%) of the owners of property to be assessed."

Sec. 2.  For storm sewer and drainage system projects, and street lighting projects, any basis for making assessments specified in G.S. 153A-186(a) or (b) may be used.

Sec. 3.  This act shall apply to Mecklenburg County only.

Sec. 4.  This act is effective upon ratification.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 18th day of April, 1983.