A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT to authorize the towns of ocean isle beach, emerald isle, and holden beach to set canal dredging fees based on a property owner's frontage abutting a dredging project.
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
SECTION 1.  Section 3 of S.L. 2004‑104 reads as rewritten:
"SECTION 3. Fees. – The fees imposed by the municipality may not exceed the cost of providing for the dredging of the canals within the municipality. The fees shall be imposed on owners of each dwelling unit or parcel of property that could or does benefit from water access through the canal system on the island and shall be made on the basis of one of the following:
(1)	The frontage abutting the project at an equal rate per foot of frontage.
(2)	Per unit or parcel of property."
SECTION 2.  This act is effective when it becomes law.