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NC Gen Stat § 162A-211 (2021)
2021 North Carolina General Statutes|Chapter 162A - Water and Sewer Systems|Article 8 - System Development Fees.|§ 162A-211 - Use and administration of revenue.

 162A-211. Use and administration of revenue.(a) Revenue from system development fees calculated using the incremental cost method or marginal cost method, exclusively or as part of the combined cost method, shall be expended only to pay:(1) Costs of constructing capital improvements including, and limited to, any of the following:a. Construction contract prices.b. Surveying and engineering fees.c. Land acquisition cost.d. Principal and interest on bonds, notes, or other obligations issued by or on behalf of the local governmental unit to finance any costs for an item listed in sub-subdivisions a. through c. of this subdivision.(2) Professional fees incurred by the local governmental unit for preparation of the system development fee analysis.(3) If no capital improvements are planned for construction within five years or the foregoing costs are otherwise paid or provided for, then principal and interest on bonds, notes, or other obligations issued by or on behalf of a local governmental unit to finance the construction or acquisition of existing capital improvements.(a1) Revenue from system development fees calculated using the combined cost method may be expended for previously completed capital improvements for which capacity exists and for capital rehabilitation projects.(b) Revenue from system development fees calculated using the buy-in method may be expended for previously completed capital improvements for which capacity exists and for capital rehabilitation projects. The basis for the buy-in calculation for previously completed capital improvements shall be determined by using a generally accepted method of valuing the actual or replacement costs of the capital improvement for which the buy-in fee is being collected less depreciation, debt credits, grants, and other generally accepted valuation adjustments.(c) A local governmental unit may pledge a system development fee as security for the payment of debt service on a bond, note, or other obligation subject to compliance with this section.(d) Except as otherwise provided in subsection (e) of this section, system development fee revenues shall be accounted for by means of a capital reserve fund established pursuant to Part 2 of Article 3 of Chapter 159 of the General Statutes and limited as to expenditure of funds in accordance with this section.(e) If and to the extent that revenues derived from system development fees are pledged to secure revenue bonds or notes issued by a local government unit under the provisions of Article 5 of Chapter 159 of the General Statutes, such revenues may be deposited in such funds, accounts or subaccounts, and applied in such manner, as set forth in the bond order, resolution, trust agreement or similar instrument authorizing and securing such bonds or notes until all such revenue bonds or notes are no longer outstanding.  (2017-138, s. 1; 2018-34, s. 2(a); 2020-61, s. 3(a).)
NC Gen Stat § 162A-213 (2021)
2021 North Carolina General Statutes|Chapter 162A - Water and Sewer Systems|Article 8 - System Development Fees.|§ 162A-213 - Time for collection of system development fees.

 162A-213. Time for collection of system development fees.(a) Land Subdivision. - For new development involving the subdivision of land, the system development fee shall be collected by a local governmental unit at the later of either of the following:(1) The time of application for a building permit.(2) When water or sewer service is committed by the local governmental unit.(b) Other New Development. - For all other new development, the local governmental unit shall collect the system development fee at the earlier of either of the following:(1) The time of application for connection of the individual unit of development to the service or facilities.(2) When water or sewer service is committed by the local governmental unit.(c) If the system development fee is collected under subdivision (a)(1) of this section and the local governmental unit that charges or assesses the system development fee is different from the local governmental unit that issues the building permit, the local governmental unit issuing the building permit shall require proof of collection of the system development fee prior to issuance of the building permit.(d) No system development fee shall be charged or assessed with respect to any new development for which a system development fee under this Article has been collected at the time of plat recordation involving the subdivision of land and the amount of capacity associated with that payment of the system development fee has not increased at the time of application for the building permit. If the amount of capacity is increased at the time of application for a building permit, then a system development fee may be charged for the difference in the amount of the increased capacity minus the system development fee previously paid under this Article.  (2017-138, s. 1; 2018-34, s. 3(a); 2020-61, ss. 1(a)-(d), 2(a).)
NC Gen Stat § 162A-215 (2021)
2021 North Carolina General Statutes|Chapter 162A - Water and Sewer Systems|Article 8 - System Development Fees.|§ 162A-215 - Narrow construction.

 162A-215. Narrow construction.Notwithstanding G.S. 153A-4 and G.S. 160A-4, in any judicial action interpreting this Article, all powers conferred by this Article shall be narrowly construed to ensure that system development fees do not unduly burden new development.  (2017-138, s. 1.)
NC Gen Stat § 162A-850 (2021)
2021 North Carolina General Statutes|Chapter 162A - Water and Sewer Systems|Article 10 - Dissolution and Merger of Units.|§ 162A-850 - "Unit" defined.

 162A-850. "Unit" defined.For purposes of this Article, the term "unit" means any of the following entities created pursuant to this Chapter:(1) A water and sewer authority created pursuant to Article 1.(2) A metropolitan water district created pursuant to Article 4.(3) A metropolitan sewerage district created pursuant to Article 5.(4) A metropolitan water and sewerage district created pursuant to Article 5A.(5) A county water and sewer district created pursuant to Article 6.  (2020-79, s. 2.)
NC Gen Stat § 162A-855 (2021)
2021 North Carolina General Statutes|Chapter 162A - Water and Sewer Systems|Article 10 - Dissolution and Merger of Units.|§ 162A-855 - Information needed to merge or dissolve.

 162A-855. Information needed to merge or dissolve.(a) Prior to any action by the Environmental Management Commission under this Article, for any unit to merge or dissolve, all of the following information must be supplied to the Environmental Management Commission:(1) The name of the unit or units to be merged or dissolved.(2) The names of the district board members of the unit or units to be merged or dissolved.(3) The proposed date of the merger or dissolution.(4) A map or description of the jurisdiction of the unit or units to be merged or dissolved.(5) The name of the entity with whom the unit or units will be merged, if applicable.(6) The names of the governing board members or district board members of the entity with which the unit is proposed to be merged, if applicable.(7) A map or description of the jurisdiction of the entity with which the unit is proposed to be merged.(8) Resolutions adopted by each district board or governing board requesting the merger or dissolution.(9) A request from each chair of a district board requesting a merger or dissolution that a representative of the Environmental Management Commission hold a public hearing in that district to discuss the proposed merger or dissolution and to receive public comment. The date, time, and place of the public hearing shall be mutually agreed to by the chair of the Environmental Management Commission and the chair of each requesting district board.(10) A copy of the most recent audit performed in accordance with G.S. 159-34 for the unit to be merged or dissolved.(11) A copy of any permits issued by the Department of Environmental Quality to the unit or units to be merged or dissolved.(12) A copy of any grant awarded under Article 2 of this Chapter involving the unit or units to be merged or dissolved and any conditions thereof, if applicable.(13) Any other information deemed necessary by the Department of Environmental Quality, the Local Government Commission, or the Environmental Management Commission.(b) Upon receipt of a request to dissolve or merge, the Environmental Management Commission shall provide a copy of all information submitted in accordance with this section to the Department of Environmental Quality and the Local Government Commission.(c) Upon confirmation of the time and place of the public hearing, each district board of an affected unit and any other governing board affected shall do all of the following:(1) Cause notice of the public hearing to be posted, at least 30 days prior to the hearing, at the courthouse in any county within which the affected unit lies.(2) Publish the notice at least once a week for four successive weeks in a newspaper having general circulation in the affected unit, the first publication to be at least 30 days prior to the public hearing.(3) Publish notice in any other manner required by the Environmental Management Commission.  (2020-79, s. 2.)
NC Gen Stat § 162A-860 (2021)
2021 North Carolina General Statutes|Chapter 162A - Water and Sewer Systems|Article 10 - Dissolution and Merger of Units.|§ 162A-860 - Merger of units.

 162A-860. Merger of units.(a) Any unit may merge with any other unit, any county, any city, any consolidated city-county, any sanitary district created pursuant to Part 2 of Article 2 of Chapter 130A of the General Statutes, any joint agency created pursuant to Part 1 or Part 5 of Article 20 of Chapter 160A of the General Statutes, or any joint agency that was created by agreement between two cities and towns to operate an airport pursuant to G.S. 63-56 and that provided drinking water and wastewater services off the airport premises before January 1, 1995, if the merger is a condition of receiving a grant from the Viable Utility Reserve as provided in Article 2 of Chapter 159G of the General Statutes. The Environmental Management Commission shall adopt a resolution transferring the assets, liabilities, and other obligations to the entity with which the unit is being merged and dissolving the unit as provided for in this Article.(b) Any unit may merge with any other unit, any county, any city, any consolidated city-county, any sanitary district created pursuant to Part 2 of Article 2 of Chapter 130A of the General Statutes, any joint agency created pursuant to Part 1 or Part 5 of Article 20 of Chapter 160A of the General Statutes, or any joint agency that was created by agreement between two cities and towns to operate an airport pursuant to G.S. 63-56 and that provided drinking water and wastewater services off the airport premises before January 1, 1995, on approval by the Environmental Management Commission, upon consultation with the Department of Environmental Quality and the Local Government Commission. The Environmental Management Commission may adopt a resolution transferring the assets, liabilities, and other obligations to the entity with which the unit is being merged and dissolving the unit as provided for in this Article, if the Environmental Management Commission deems the merger in the best interest of the people of the State.(c) The Environmental Management Commission shall adopt a resolution dissolving a unit and transferring the assets, liabilities, and other obligations of the unit to another unit when the procedures set forth in G.S. 162A-855 have been completed and all of the following apply:(1) Both units are created pursuant to Article 5 of this Chapter.(2) Both units are located in the same county.(3) The jurisdiction of the units is contiguous.(4) The unit to be merged and dissolved does not directly provide sewerage services to any customers.(5) The unit to be merged and dissolved leases its assets to the unit with which it is proposed to be merged.(6) The unit to be merged and dissolved has no outstanding debts.  (2020-79, s. 2.)
NC Gen Stat § 162A-865 (2021)
2021 North Carolina General Statutes|Chapter 162A - Water and Sewer Systems|Article 10 - Dissolution and Merger of Units.|§ 162A-865 - Dissolution of units.

 162A-865. Dissolution of units.(a) Any unit may be dissolved if the dissolution is a condition of a grant from the Viable Utility Reserve as provided in Article 2 of Chapter 159G of the General Statutes. The Environmental Management Commission shall adopt a resolution transferring the assets, liabilities, and other obligations as provided for in the grant conditions imposed under Article 2 of Chapter 159G of the General Statutes.(b) Any unit may be dissolved in order to merge that unit with any other unit, any county, any city, any consolidated city-county, any sanitary district created pursuant to Part 2 of Article 2 of Chapter 130A of the General Statutes, any joint agency created pursuant to Part 1 or Part 5 of Article 20 of Chapter 160A of the General Statutes, or any joint agency that was created by agreement between two cities and towns to operate an airport pursuant to G.S. 63-56 and that provided drinking water and wastewater services off the airport premises before January 1, 1995, and establish a new entity created under the General Statutes, on approval by the Environmental Management Commission, upon consultation with the Department of Environmental Quality and the Local Government Commission. The Environmental Management Commission may adopt a resolution transferring the assets, liabilities, and other obligations to the new entity and dissolving the unit as provided for in this Article, if the Environmental Management Commission deems the merger in the best interest of the people of the State.  (2020-79, s. 2.)
NC Gen Stat § 162A-870 (2021)
2021 North Carolina General Statutes|Chapter 162A - Water and Sewer Systems|Article 10 - Dissolution and Merger of Units.|§ 162A-870 - Effective date of merger or dissolution.

 162A-870. Effective date of merger or dissolution.Upon the adoption of a resolution of merger or dissolution by the Environmental Management Commission as provided in this Article, the effective date for merger and dissolution shall be fixed as of June 30 following the adoption of the resolution or the second June 30 following the adoption of the resolution.  (2020-79, s. 2.)
NC Gen Stat § 162A-875 (2021)
2021 North Carolina General Statutes|Chapter 162A - Water and Sewer Systems|Article 10 - Dissolution and Merger of Units.|§ 162A-875 - Effect of merger or dissolution.

 162A-875. Effect of merger or dissolution.(a) Upon adoption of the resolution of merger or dissolution by the Environmental Management Commission, all of the following shall apply on the effective date set forth in the resolution:(1) All property, real, personal, and mixed, including accounts receivable, belonging to the dissolving unit shall be transferred, disposed of, or otherwise accounted for as provided in the resolution of merger or dissolution.(2) All judgments, liens, rights of liens, and causes of action of any nature in favor of the dissolving unit shall vest in and remain and inure to the benefit of the merged district.(3) All taxes, assessments, sewer charges, and any other debts, charges, or fees owing to the dissolving unit shall be owed to and collected as provided in the resolution of merger or dissolution.(4) All actions, suits, and proceedings pending against, or having been instituted by, the dissolving unit shall not be abated by merger, but all such actions, suits, and proceedings shall be continued and completed in the same manner as if merger had not occurred, and the merged entity shall be a party to all such actions, suits, and proceedings in the place and stead of the dissolving unit and shall pay or cause to be paid any judgments rendered against the dissolving unit in any such actions, suits, or proceedings. No new process is required to be served in any such action, suit, or proceeding.(5) All obligations of the dissolving unit, including outstanding indebtedness, shall be assumed as provided in the resolution of merger or dissolution, and all such obligations and outstanding indebtedness shall constitute obligations and indebtedness as provided in the resolution of merger or dissolution.(6) All ordinances, rules, regulations, and policies of the dissolving unit shall continue in full force and effect until repealed or amended by the governing body of the merged entity.(7) The dissolving unit shall be abolished and shall no longer be constituted a public body or a body politic and corporate, except for purposes of carrying into effect the provisions and intent of this section.(8) Governance of the district shall be as specified in the resolution of merger or dissolution, which may be amended by the Environmental Management Commission, as needed.(b) All governing boards and district boards are authorized to take the actions and execute the documents necessary to effectuate the provisions and intent of this section.  (2020-79, s. 2.)
NC Gen Stat § 162B-1 (2021)
2021 North Carolina General Statutes|Chapter 162B - Continuity of Local Government in Emergency|Article 1 - In General.|§ 162B-1 - Designated emergency location of government.

 162B-1. Designated emergency location of government.The governing body of each political subdivision of this State is hereby authorized to designate by ordinance, resolution or other manner, alternate sites or places, within or without the territorial limits of such political subdivision and within or without this State, as the emergency location of government. (1959, c. 349.)
NC Gen Stat § 162B-2 (2021)
2021 North Carolina General Statutes|Chapter 162B - Continuity of Local Government in Emergency|Article 1 - In General.|§ 162B-2 - Emergency meetings.

 162B-2. Emergency meetings.Whenever the Governor and Council of State acting together declare an emergency to exist by reason of actual or impending hostile attack upon the State of North Carolina and, due to the emergency so declared, it becomes imprudent or impossible to conduct the affairs of local government at the regular or usual place or places thereof, the governing body of each political subdivision of this State is hereby authorized to meet from time to time upon call of the presiding officer or a majority of the members thereof at the designated emergency location of government during the period of the emergency and until the emergency is declared terminated by the Governor and Council of State. (1959, c. 349.)
NC Gen Stat § 162B-3 (2021)
2021 North Carolina General Statutes|Chapter 162B - Continuity of Local Government in Emergency|Article 1 - In General.|§ 162B-3 - Emergency public business; nature and conduct.

 162B-3. Emergency public business; nature and conduct.Whenever the public business of any political subdivision is being conducted at a designated emergency location outside the territorial limits thereof, the members of the governing body may exercise such executive and legislative powers and functions as are pertinent to continued operation of the local government upon return to within the respective political subdivision. Any action taken by any local governing body at a designated emergency location shall apply and be effective only within the territorial limits of the political subdivision which such governing body represents. During the period of time in which the public business is being conducted at a designated emergency location, the governing body may, when emergency conditions make impossible compliance with legally prescribed procedural requirements relating to the conduct of meetings and transaction of business, waive such compliance by adoption of an ordinance or resolution reciting the facts and conditions showing the impossibility of compliance. (1959, c. 349.)
NC Gen Stat § 162B-4 (2021)
2021 North Carolina General Statutes|Chapter 162B - Continuity of Local Government in Emergency|Article 1 - In General.|§ 162B-4 - Provisions of Article control over local law.

 162B-4. Provisions of Article control over local law.The provisions of this Article shall be effective in the event it shall be employed notwithstanding any statutory, charter or ordinance provision to the contrary or in conflict herewith. (1959, c. 349.)
NC Gen Stat § 162B-5 (2021)
2021 North Carolina General Statutes|Chapter 162B - Continuity of Local Government in Emergency|Article 2 - Emergency Interim Succession to Local Offices.|§ 162B-5 - Short title.

 162B-5. Short title.This Article shall be known and may be cited as the North Carolina "Emergency Interim Local Government Executive Succession Act of 1959." (1959, c. 314, s. 1.)
NC Gen Stat § 162B-6 (2021)
2021 North Carolina General Statutes|Chapter 162B - Continuity of Local Government in Emergency|Article 2 - Emergency Interim Succession to Local Offices.|§ 162B-6 - Policy and purpose.

 162B-6. Policy and purpose.Because of the existing possibility of attack upon the State of North Carolina of unprecedented size and destructiveness, and in order, in the event of such an attack, to assure continuity of local government through legally constituted leadership, authority and responsibility in offices of political subdivisions of the State of North Carolina; to provide for the effective operation of local governments during an emergency; and to facilitate the early resumption of functions temporarily suspended, it is found and declared to be necessary to provide for emergency interim succession to governmental offices of political subdivisions in the event the incumbents thereof and their deputies, assistants or other subordinate officers authorized, pursuant to law, to exercise all of the powers and discharge the duties of such offices (hereinafter referred to as deputies) are unavailable to perform the duties and functions of such offices. (1959, c. 314, s. 2.)
NC Gen Stat § 162B-7 (2021)
2021 North Carolina General Statutes|Chapter 162B - Continuity of Local Government in Emergency|Article 2 - Emergency Interim Succession to Local Offices.|§ 162B-7 - Definitions.

 162B-7. Definitions.Unless otherwise clearly required by the context, as used in this Article:(1) "Attack" means any attack or series of attacks by an enemy of the United States upon the State of North Carolina causing, or which may cause, substantial damage or injury to civilian property or persons in the State in any manner by sabotage or by the use of bombs, missiles, shellfire, or atomic, radiological, chemical, bacteriological or biological means or other weapons or processes.(2) "Emergency interim successor" means a person designated pursuant to this Article, in the event the officer is unavailable, to exercise the powers and discharge the duties of an office until a successor is appointed or elected and qualified as may be provided by the statutes, charters and ordinances or until the lawful incumbent is able to resume the exercise of the powers and discharge the duties of the office.(3) "Office" includes all local offices, the powers and duties of which are defined by statutes, charters and ordinances.(4) "Political subdivision" includes counties, cities, towns, townships, districts, authorities and other municipal corporations and entities whether organized and existing under charter or general law.(5) "Unavailable" means either that a vacancy in office exists and there is no deputy authorized to exercise all of the powers and discharge the duties of the office, or that the lawful incumbent of the office (including any deputy exercising the powers and discharging the duties of an office because of a vacancy) and his duly authorized deputy are absent or unable to exercise the powers and discharge the duties of the office. (1959, c. 314, s. 3.)