GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA

1989 SESSION

CHAPTER 620

HOUSE BILL 226

AN ACT TO ALLOW COASTAL AREA COUNTIES TO ESTABLISH COUNTY SERVICE DISTRICTS AND LEVY TAXES IN THOSE DISTRICTS FOR STREET MAINTENANCE AND JUNK AUTO REMOVAL.

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

Section 1.  G.S. 153A-301 reads as rewritten:

"§ 153A-301. Purposes for which districts may be established.

(a)       The board of commissioners of any county may define any number of service districts in order to finance, provide, or maintain for the districts one or more of the following services, facilities and functions in addition to or to a greater extent than those financed, provided or maintained for the entire county:

(1)       Beach erosion control and flood and hurricane protection works;

(2)       Fire protection;

(3)       Recreation;

(4)       Sewage collection and disposal systems of all types, including septic tank systems or other on-site collection or disposal facilities or systems;

(5)       Solid waste collection and disposal systems;

(6)       Water supply and distribution systems;

(7)       Ambulance and rescue;

(8)       Watershed improvement projects, including but not limited to watershed improvement projects as defined in General Statutes Chapter 139; drainage projects, including but not limited to the drainage projects provided for by General Statutes Chapter 156; and water resources development projects, including but not limited to the federal water resources development projects provided for by General Statutes Chapter 143, Article 21;

(9)       Cemeteries.

(b) The General Assembly finds that coastal-area counties have a special problem with lack of maintenance of platted rights-of-way, resulting in ungraded sand travelways deviating from the original rights-of-way and encroaching on private property, and such cartways exhibit poor drainage and are blocked by junk automobiles.

(c) To address the problem described in subsection (b), the board of commissioners of any coastal-area county as defined by G.S. 113A-103(2) may define any number of service districts in order to finance, provide, or maintain for the districts one or more of the following services, facilities and functions in addition to or to a greater extent than those financed, provided or maintained for the entire county:

(1) Removal of junk automobiles; and

(2) Street maintenance."

Sec. 2.  This act is effective upon ratification.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified this the 11th day of July, 1989.