North Carolina § 153A-185 - Authority to make special assessments.

§ 153A-185. Authority to make special assessments.

A county may make special assessments against benefited property within the county for all or part of the costs of: Constructing, reconstructing, extending, or otherwise building or improving water systems; Constructing, reconstructing, extending, or otherwise building or improving sewage collection and disposal systems of all types, including septic tank systems or other on-site collection or disposal facilities or systems; Acquiring, constructing, reconstructing, extending, renovating, enlarging, maintaining, operating, or otherwise building or improving Beach erosion control or flood and hurricane protection works; and Watershed improvement projects, drainage projects and water resources development projects (as those projects are defined in G.S. 153A-301). Constructing, reconstructing, paving, widening, installing curbs and gutters, and otherwise building and improving streets, as provided in G.S. 153A-205. Providing street lights and street lighting in a residential subdivision, as provided in G.S. 153A-206. A county may not assess property within a city pursuant to subdivision (1) or (2) of this section unless the governing board of the city has by resolution approved the project. History (1963, c. 985, s. 1; 1965, c. 714; 1969, c. 474, s. 1; 1973, c. 822, s. 1; 1975, c. 487, s. 1; 1979, c. 619, s. 11; 1983, c. 321, s. 1; 1989 (Reg. Sess., 1990), c. 923, s. 1.) Local Modification. - (As to Article 9) Avery and Brunswick: 1987 (Reg. Sess., 1988), c. 1046; Lincoln: 1997, c. 169; Mecklenburg: 1983, c. 189. Cross References. - As to applicability to assessments levied by water and sewer authorities established pursuant to Chapter 162A , Article 1, see G.S. 162A-6 . Editor's Note. - Session Laws 2010-129, s. 7, as amended by Session Laws 2011-205, s. 1, effective June 23, 2011, provides: "A local government that imposed an assessment prior to 2012 to finance a capital project that has been assumed by another unit of local government may return unused assessments to the person that paid the assessment."