CHAPTER 668
HOUSE BILL 871

AN ACT TO ALLOW THE TOWNS OF KNIGHTDALE AND ZEBULON TO IMPOSE WATER AND WASTE WATER CAPACITY CHARGES.

Whereas, rapid growth through the influx of new residents and new construction impose on the Town of Knightdale and Zebulon increased capital costs necessary to insure that adequate capacities of treated water and waste water for the customers of the towns' systems and protected and made available to the users of the towns' facilities; and

Whereas, it is the purpose of this act to enable the Towns of Knightdale and Zebulon to accommodate orderly growth and development within its corporate limits and extraterritorial jurisdiction by providing them with new methods of regulating development to meet increased demands for the protection, upgrading and future expansion of their water treatment facilities and waste water treatment facilities; and

Whereas, it is the further purpose of this act to place an equitable share of the costs of protecting, upgrading, expanding and adding to the present water and waste water treatment facilities on all new and expanded users of such facilities; and

Whereas, it is the intent of the General Assembly that the costs of protecting, upgrading, expanding and adding to the present water and waste water treatment facilities be borne in part by those requiring new or increased capacities from such facilities, rather than placing the brunt of those costs on existing users of the facilities; Now, therefore,

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts: