NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1969 SESSION

CHAPTER 478

HOUSE BILL 587

AN ACT TO AMEND CHAPTER 130 OF THE GENERAL STATUTES SO AS TO PROVIDE THAT SANITARY DISTRICTS MAY ACQUIRE DISTRIBUTION SYSTEMS LOCATED OUTSIDE THE DISTRICT.

The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

Section 1.  Article 12 of Chapter 130 of the General Statutes, as the same appears in Volume 3B and in the 1967 Cumulative Supplement thereto, is hereby amended by adding at the end of G.S. 130-128 a new paragraph to be designated as subparagraph (19) and reading as follows:

"(19)    To negotiate for and acquire any distribution system located outside the district when the water for such distribution system is furnished by the district pursuant to contract. If any such distribution system be acquired by a district it may continue the operation of such system even though it remains outside the district."

Sec. 2.  All laws and clauses of laws in conflict with this Act are hereby repealed.

Sec. 3.  This Act shall be effective upon ratification.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 12th day of May, 1969.