A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT to provide that after an involuntary annexation, no property taxes may be levied until certain basic services are provided, and that no WATER and SEWER assessments may be levied until the municipal government is PREPARED to PROVIDE those SERVICES.
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
SECTION 1.  G.S. 160A‑49(l) read as rewritten:
"(l)	Until a city provides water distribution, sewage collection, police protection, fire protection, and solid waste  collection services to a property annexed under this Part, it may neither levy nor collect ad valorem taxes on that property. "
SECTION 2.  G.S. 160A‑49(k) is repealed.
SECTION 3.  G.S. 160A‑37(k) reads as rewritten:
"(k)	Until a city  provides water distribution, sewage collection, police protection, fire protection, and solid waste collection services to a property annexed under this Part, it may neither levy nor collect ad valorem taxes on that property. "
SECTION 4.  G.S. 160A‑237 reads as rewritten:
"§ 160A‑237.  Authority to hold water and sewer assessments in abeyance.
The assessment resolution may provide that assessments levied under this Article for water or sewer improvements be held in abeyance without interest until improvements on the assessed property are actually connected to the water or sewer system for which the assessment was levied, or a date certain not more than 10 years from the date of confirmation of the assessment roll, whichever event first occurs. The assessment resolution shall provide that assessments levied under this Article for water or sewer improvements be held in abeyance without interest until the water or sewer system is available for connection to the property on which the assessment was levied. Upon termination of the period of abeyance, the assessment shall be paid in accordance with the terms set out in the assessment resolution. If assessments are to be held in abeyance, the assessment  resolution shall classify the property assessed according to general land use, location with respect to the water or sewer system, or other relevant factors, and shall provide that the period of abeyance shall be the same for all assessed property in the same class.
All statutes of limitations are suspended during the time that any assessment is held in abeyance without interest."
SECTION 5.  This act becomes effective July 1, 2007.