GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA

1983 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 951

HOUSE BILL 1541

 

AN ACT PROVIDING FOR A REDUCTION IN PROPOSED WATER AND SEWER ASSESSMENTS IN THE CITY OF WASHINGTON.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

 

Section 1.  Notwithstanding any provision of any ordinance of the City of Washington, or any provision of Article 10 of Chapter 160A of the General Statutes, the City Council of the City of Washington may:

(1)       Uniformly reduce by up to forty-six percent (46%) the amount of sewer and water assessments which it may fix under G.S. 160A-228; and

(2)       Provide in the assessment resolution that, as to land which it classifies as undeveloped, the water and sewer assessments shall be held in abeyance without interest until improvements on the assessed property are actually connected to the water or sewer system, or until a date certain not more than 10 years from the date of confirmation of the assessment roll, whichever occurs first.

Sec. 2.  The percentage reduction provided in subdivision 1(1) of this act may be greater for assessment to be paid in cash than for assessments to be paid in installments.

Sec. 3.  This act is effective only with respect to:

(1)       Assessment proceedings now pending in the City of Washington in which no confirmation has yet been made under G.S. 160A-228; and

(2)       Assessment proceedings in which, prior to January 1, 1985, the City Council of the City of Washington shall adopt the preliminary resolution mentioned in G.S. 160A-223.

Sec. 4.  This act is effective upon ratification.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 22nd day of June, 1984.