GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA
1989 SESSION

CHAPTER 1070
SENATE BILL 439

AN ACT TO ALLOW THE TOWN OF RICHFIELD TO COLLECT UTILITY BILLS AS IF THEY WERE TAXES DUE THE TOWN.

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

Section 1.  Whenever water supply or distribution or sewage collection or disposal is provided by a town under Article 16 of Chapter 160A of the General Statutes, and the person legally responsible for payment of the rents, rates, fees or charges for the service fails to pay such rents, rates, fees or charges for more than 60 days after they became delinquent, the Town providing the service may treat the amount due as if it were a tax due to the Town and may proceed to collect the amount due through the use of levy on tangible personal property under G.S. 105-366 and G.S. 105-367.
Sec. 2.  This act applies to the Town of Richfield only.
Sec. 3.  This act is effective upon ratification.
In the General Assembly read three times and ratified this the 28th day of July, 1990.