GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA
SESSION 2021
SESSION LAW 2021-37
HOUSE BILL 20
AN ACT to expand the type of development connections to water supply lines funded by the clean water and natural gas critical needs bond act of 1998.
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
SECTION 1. Section 5 of S.L. 2011‑412 reads as rewritten:
"SECTION 5.
Notwithstanding Section 5.1(b) of S.L. 1998‑132, the Secretary of Environment
and Natural Resources Environmental Quality shall grant a waiver to
allow additional connections to a bond‑funded waterline within an area
designated as WS‑I or the critical area of any area that has been
designated as WS‑II, WS‑III, or WS‑IV by the Environmental
Management Commission pursuant to G.S. 143‑214.5, provided the
design capacity and size of the existing bond‑funded waterline can
accommodate the additional connections and the purpose of the additional
connection is for either of the following reasons:
(1) To address an existing threat to public health or water quality.
(2) To provide water to a habitable
structure located on a lot zoned for a single‑family residence. residential
use or mixed‑use development. There is no requirement that the habitable
structure existed on the lot at the time of the construction of the bond‑funded
waterline."
In the General Assembly read three times and ratified this the 15th day of June, 2021.
s/ Phil Berger
President Pro Tempore of the Senate
s/ Destin Hall
Presiding Officer of the House of Representatives
s/ Roy Cooper
Governor
Approved 3:39 p.m. this 16th day of June, 2021