GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA
1995 SESSION

CHAPTER 574
SENATE BILL 1176

AN ACT TO MODIFY THE REQUIREMENTS FOR MAKING STREET ASSESSMENTS IN FOXFIRE VILLAGE UNDER CERTAIN CIRCUMSTANCES.

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

Section 1.  The Charter of Foxfire Village, being Chapter 237 of the 1977 Session Laws, is amended by adding a new Article to read:
"ARTICLE VIII.
"STREET ASSESSMENTS.
"Sec. 8.1.  Street Assessments.
(a)	In addition to any authority which is now or hereafter may be granted by general law to the town for making street improvements, the Village Council may make street improvements and assess the cost thereof against abutting property owners in accordance with the provisions of this section.
(b)	The Village Council may order street improvements and assess the cost thereof against the abutting property owners, according to one or more of the assessment bases set forth in Article 10 of Chapter 160A of the General Statutes without the necessity of a petition meeting the requirements of that Article, upon the finding by the Village Council as a fact that:
(1)	The street improvement project does not exceed 30,000 lineal front footage;
(2)	The street improvement project involves no more than 200 lots;
(3)	The street improvement project consists of a series of streets all of which are contiguous to at least one other street in the project;
(4)	The street improvement project abuts at least one other paved street in the Village;
(5)	The street improvement project consists solely of a collection of streets for which petitions under Article 10 of Chapter 160A of the General Statutes were received within two years before a preliminary assessment resolution is adopted under the authority of this Article, in accordance with G.S. 160A-223, where:
a.	The petitions taken as a whole were signed by at least forty percent (40%) of the owners of property to be assessed, who represent at least forty percent (40%) of all the lineal front footage of the lands abutting on the streets or portions thereof to be improved; but
b.	Where for at least five streets in the project, the petitions were signed by at least two-thirds of the owners of property to be assessed, who represent at least two-thirds of all the lineal front footage of the lands abutting on the streets or portions thereof to be improved.
(c)	For the purpose of this Article, the term 'street improvement' shall include grading, regrading, surfacing, resurfacing, widening, paving, repaving, the acquisition of right-of-way, and the construction or reconstruction of curbs, gutters, and street drainage facilities.
(d)	In ordering street improvements without a petition and assessing the cost thereof under authority of this Article, the Village Council shall comply with the procedure provided by Article 10 of Chapter 160A of the General Statutes, except those provisions relating to the petition of property owners and the sufficiency thereof.  Any assessment under the authority of this act must be under a preliminary assessment resolution adopted under G.S. 160A-223 no later than December 31, 1998.
(e)	The effect of the act of levying assessments under the authority of this Article shall for all purposes be the same as if the assessments were levied under authority of Article 10 of Chapter 160A of the General Statutes."
Sec. 2.  This act is effective upon ratification.
In the General Assembly read three times and ratified this the 20th day of June, 1996.

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Dennis A. Wicker
President of the Senate

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Harold J. Brubaker
Speaker of the House of Representatives