GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA
1987 SESSION
CHAPTER 964
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
Section 1. Section 8.14(3) of the Charter of the City of High Point, being Chapter 501, Session Laws of 1979, reads as rewritten:
"(3) Water mains and sewers. In the case of water mains
and storm and sanitary sewers, the cost of not exceeding an eight (8) inch
water or sanitary sewer main and of not exceeding a 30 inch storm sewer main
and of such portion of said mains as lie within the limits of the street or
streets, or part thereof, to be improved as provided in the petition or
resolution ordering the same, shall be assessed against the abutting
property. Such cost shall be assessed against the lots and parcels of
land abutting on said street or streets or parts thereof, according to their
respective frontages thereon by an equal rate per foot of such frontage;
provided, that in case of a corner lot, used as a single lot, where there is a
water main or sewer already laid on the intersecting street on which such lot
abuts and by which such lot is or can be served, the City Council may
provide that no assessment shall be made against said lot for the second
water main or sewer for any part of the frontage of said lot except that
portion in excess of 150 feet if said lot is or in excess of
seventy-five percent (75%) of the frontage of any side of said corner lot,
whichever is greater, in a residential section of the city, or in excess of
100 feet if said lot is in a business section of the city, and in such case
such portion of said cost as would otherwise be assessed against said lot shall
be borne by the city; provided further, that if a water or sanitary sewer main
in excess of eight (8) inches in size or a storm sewer main in excess of 30
inches in size is laid in said portion of said street or streets, then the cost
of such water or sanitary sewer main in excess of the cost of an eight (8) inch
main and the cost of such storm sewer main in excess of a 30 inch main shall be
borne by the city; provided further, that if the resolution ordered the
construction of any pumping station, outfall, septic tank or disposal plant, no
part of the cost of the same shall be specially assessed. Nothing
contained herein shall be construed to limit the right of the city to contract
with any property owner or owners for the construction of any pumping station,
outfall, septic tank or disposal plant or for the construction of water mains
or storm or sanitary sewers and for the assessment of the cost thereof
according to the terms of such contract."
Sec. 2. This act is effective upon ratification.
In the General Assembly read three times and ratified this the 24th day of June, 1988.