NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY
1967 SESSION

CHAPTER 766
HOUSE BILL 664

AN ACT TO ESTABLISH A LIEN FOR UNPAID WATER AND SEWERAGE CHARGES IN THE TOWN OF LAKE LURE.

The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

Section 1. Notwithstanding the provisions of G. S. 160‑249 or G. S. 160‑256 or any other provision of law, in case any charges for water service or sewerage service due and owing to the Town of Lake Lure are not paid within 10 days after the same becomes due, then such charges and any penalties assessed for nonpayment of the same shall become a lien upon the property served or in connection with which such service is used; provided, however, that no such charges shall become a lien unless the same were incurred by the owner of the particular property. Such charges and penalties may at any time thereafter be collected either by suit in the name of the Town, or by the Town tax collector by sale of  the property upon and to which the lien attaches at the Town hall door, after advertising the sale once a week for two successive weeks in some newspaper having general circulation in the Town which is qualified to carry legal notices. The sale shall be made under the same rules and regulations, and subject to the same costs and penalties and to the same rights of redemption, as are now provided by law for the foreclosure of the lien on real estate for ad valorem taxes.
Sec. 2. In addition to any authority granted by general or local law to the Town of Lake Lure to finance sewage disposal facilities and sewage treatment facilities, the Board of Commissioners of the Town is hereby authorized and empowered to levy assessments upon all properties which are now or will hereafter be connected to any sewage disposal or treatment facilities owned or constructed by the Town, for the purpose of financing, in whole or in part, the construction and operation of sewage disposal or treatment facilities. Such assessments shall apply uniformly within reasonable classifications to all properties now or hereafter connected to any disposal or treatment facilities owned or constructed by the Town; provided, however, the Board of Commissioners may establish higher assessments for property developed or to be developed for commercial, industrial, or institutional uses or purposes than those established for private residential use, and may base the assessments for residential property or hotel or, motel property upon the number of dwelling units served or to be served by such disposal or treatment facility.
Sec. 3. All laws and clauses of laws in conflict with this Act are hereby repealed.
Sec. 4. This Act shall be effective upon its ratification.
In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 13th day of June, 1967.