GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA
1991 SESSION

CHAPTER 417
HOUSE BILL 966

AN ACT TO ALLOW DISSOLUTION OF SANITARY DISTRICTS FOR WHICH NO DISTRICT BOARD MEMBERS HAVE BEEN ELECTED FOR EIGHT YEARS.

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

Section 1.  G.S. 130A-85 is amended by adding a new subsection to read:
"(a1)	The County Board of Commissioners may dissolve a Sanitary District located entirely within one county and for which no District Board members have been elected within eight years preceding dissolution, upon the following conditions:
(1)	The District has no outstanding legal indebtedness;
(2)	The Board of Commissioners adopts a plan providing for continued operation and provision of all services, if any, previously being performed or rendered to the District.  No plan shall be adopted unless at the time of its adoption any water and sewer or sanitary system being operated by the District is in compliance with all local, State, and federal rules and regulations; and
(3)	The Board of Commissioners adopts a resolution finding that the interest of the citizens of the Sanitary District and the county will be best served if the operation and the services provided by the District are provided for by the Board of Commissioners.
When all actions relating to dissolution of the sanitary district have been completed, the chairperson of the County Board of Commissioners shall notify the Department."
Sec. 2.  This act is effective upon ratification.
In the General Assembly read three times and ratified this the 26th day of June, 1991.

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James C. Gardner
President of the Senate

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Daniel Blue, Jr.
Speaker of the House of Representatives