North Carolina § 162A-88 - District is a municipal corporation.

§ 162A-88. District is a municipal corporation.

The inhabitants of a county water and sewer district created pursuant to this Article are a body corporate and politic by the name specified by the board of commissioners. Under that name they are vested with all the property and rights of property belonging to the corporation; have perpetual succession; may sue and be sued; may contract and be contracted with; may acquire and hold any property, real and personal, devised, sold, or in any manner conveyed, dedicated to, or otherwise acquired by them, and from time to time may hold, invest, sell, or dispose of the same; may have a common seal and alter and renew it at will; may establish, revise and collect rates, fees or other charges and penalties for the use of or the services furnished or to be furnished by any sanitary sewer system, water system or sanitary sewer and water system of the district; and may exercise those powers conferred on them by this Article. The district board may require system development fees only in accordance with Article 8 of this Chapter. History (1977, c. 466, s. 1; 1979, c. 624, s. 5; 2011-284, s. 124; 2017-138, s. 9.) Editor's Note. - Session Laws 2017-138, s. 11, made subsection (b), as added by Session Laws 2017-138, s. 9, effective October 1, 2017, and applicable to system development fees imposed on or after that date. Session Laws 2017-138, s. 11, further provides: "Nothing in this act provides retroactive authority for any system development fee, or any similar fee for water or sewer services to be furnished, collected by a local governmental unit prior to October 1, 2017." Effect of Amendments. - Session Laws 2011-284, s. 124, effective June 24, 2011, deleted "bequeathed" following "devised" in the middle of the section. Session Laws 2017-138, s. 9, added subsection (b). For effective date and applicability, see editor's note.