NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY
1977 SESSION

CHAPTER 153
SENATE BILL 240

AN ACT TO ALLOW NEW HANOVER AND PENDER COUNTY TO UNDERTAKE NAVIGATION PROJECTS AND TO ASSESS THE BENEFITTED PROPERTY FOR THE COST THEREOF.

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

Section 1.  The counties of New Hanover and Pender and all of the municipalities therein are authorized to undertake navigation projects for the purpose of improving navigation or creating navigable waterways within their boundaries; provided, that said counties or municipalities must finance the entire cost of any such project by special assessments as hereinafter authorized. The counties of New Hanover and Pender are authorized to make special assessments against the benefitted property within their boundaries for the purpose of financing navigation projects in accordance with the procedures in Article 9 of Chapter 153A of the North Carolina General Statutes, and the municipalities in New Hanover and Pender counties are authorized to make special assessments against the benefitted properties within their boundaries for the purpose of financing navigation projects in accordance with the procedures of Article 10 of Chapter 160A of the North Carolina General Statutes.
Sec. 2. This act shall become effective upon ratification.
In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 4th day of April, 1977.