NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1965 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 280

HOUSE BILL 432

 

 

AN ACT TO AMEND CHAPTER 163 OF THE SESSION LAWS OF 1963, BEING THE CHARTER OF THE CITY OF WASHINGTON.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

 

Section 1. The Charter of the City of Washington, as it appears in Section 1 of Chapter 163 of the Session Laws of 1963, is hereby amended in the following respects:

(a)       Article XVII is hereby amended by inserting therein a new Section, immediately following Section 17.2, to be designated as Section 17.3, and to read as follows:

"Sec. 17.3. Disposal of Surplus Personal Property. The City Council shall have power, in addition to the power granted by G. S. 160-59, to sell or to direct any of its officers or employees to sell any personal property, which the Council has declared to be surplus property, in the following manner:

(a)       Without bids or advertisement, at private sale, if the property has a market value of five hundred dollars ($500.00) or less;

(b)       To the highest bidder upon receipt of informal written bids, with only such advertisement as the board may direct, if the property has a market value of more than five hundred dollars ($500.00) but no more than two thousand dollars ($2,000.00); provided, all such bids received shall be recorded on the minutes of the board;

(c)       To the highest bidder upon receipt of sealed bids after one week's public notice, if the property has a market value in excess of two thousand dollars ($2,000.00); provided, all such sealed bid proposals shall be opened in public and recorded on the minutes of the board."

(b)       Article XIX is hereby amended by inserting therein two new Sections, immediately following Section 19.3, to be designated as Sections 19.4 and 19.5, and to read as follows:

"Sec. 19.4. Subdivision Control Authority. The City Council shall have such authority to enact subdivision control ordinances and regulations as is granted by general law; provided, that, as an alternative to exercising such authority within the territory lying outside and within one mile of the corporate limits as provided in G. S. 160-226, the City Council may exercise such authority within boundaries which it may establish coincident with, or with reference to, geographic boundaries, either natural or man-made; provided, that such boundaries shall be established, insofar as is practicable, to encompass territory lying within a distance of approximately one mile of the corporate limits; but in no event shall such boundaries be established to encompass territory lying more than one and one-half miles distant from the corporate limits; provided, further, that in the event of land lying outside the corporate limits, within boundaries established pursuant to this Section and lying within the boundaries of the extraterritorial subdivision jurisdiction of another municipality, the City Council may enact ordinances or regulations with respect to such land only upon receipt of a resolution duly adopted by the governing body of such other municipality consenting to the enactment of such ordinances or regulations."

"Sec. 19.5. Water and Sewer Assessments; Corner Lot Exemptions. The City Council shall have power to establish, by ordinance or resolution, schedules of exemptions from assessments for water and sewer extensions, made under authority of general or special law, for corner lots when water and sewer lines are installed along both sides of such lots and when the cost of such installations along both sides were or are financed in whole or in part by assessments. The schedules of exemptions may be classified as to land use (residential, commercial, industrial, institutional, or agricultural) and shall be uniform within each classification. Provided, no schedule of exemption may provide for exemption of more than two hundred (200) lineal feet of the frontage on any side of a corner lot."

Sec. 2. All laws and clauses of laws in conflict with the provisions of this Act are hereby repealed.

Sec. 3. This Act shall be in full force and effect upon its ratification.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 16th day of April, 1965.