GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA

SESSION 1997

S	1 

SENATE BILL 238

Short Title:  City Water System Relocation Costs.	(Public)

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Sponsors: Senators Ledbetter; Carpenter, Carrington, Clark, Cochrane, Forrester, Foxx, Garwood, Horton, McDaniel, Page, Rucho, Shaw of Guilford, and Webster.

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Referred to:  Transportation.

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February 25, 1997

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT TO PROVIDE THAT THE DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION SHALL PAY THE NONBETTERMENT COSTS OF UTILITY RELOCATIONS FOR WATER AND SEWER LINES OWNED BY A SYSTEM CREATED PURSUANT TO ARTICLE 20 OF CHAPTER 160A OF THE GENERAL STATUTES.
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
Section 1.  G.S. 136-27.1 reads as rewritten:
"§ 136-27.1.  Relocation of water and sewer lines of municipalities and nonprofit water or sewer corporations or associations.
The Department of Transportation shall pay the nonbetterment cost for the relocation of water and sewer lines, located within the existing State highway right-of-way, that are necessary to be relocated for a State highway improvement project and that are owned by: (i)	a municipality with a population of 5,500 or less according to the latest decennial census; (ii) a nonprofit water or sewer association or corporation; (iii) any water or sewer system organized pursuant to Chapter 162A of the General Statutes; (iv) a rural water system operated by county as an enterprise system; (v) any sanitary district organized pursuant to Part 2 of Article 2 of Chapter 130A of the General Statutes; (vi) constructed by a water or sewer system organized pursuant to Chapter 162A of the General Statutes and then sold or transferred to a municipality with a population of greater than 5,500 according to the latest decennial census; or (vii) constructed by a water or sewer system organized pursuant to Article 20 of Chapter 160A of the General Statutes."
Section 2.  This act is effective when it becomes law.