UPDATE July 2024: The legislature made further changes to this authority, as discussed here. The governing boards of several government-owned or operated water and sewer utilities currently have the authority to mandate connection of certain properties to their water systems. … Read more
The General Assembly expanded the categories of allowable expenditures for a county’s solid waste fee proceeds in the 2014 technical corrections act, S.L. 2014-115 (HB 1133). Specifically, section 60 added a new provision to G.S. 153A-292 (section b1) that states … Read more
UPDATE October 5, 2015: The legislature enacted S.L. 2015-246, which, effective August 1, 2016, prohibits a city, county, sanitary district, and water and sewer authority from mandating connection to its water system (and prohibits a city from assessing an availability … Read more