North Carolina · statute · N.C. Gen. Stat. ch. 160B · 24 active provisions
Title; effective date. This Chapter shall be cited as the "Consolidated City-County Act of 1973" and is enacted pursuant to Article V, Sec. 2(4) of the North Carolina Constitution, effective July 1, 1973. (1973, c. 537, s. 1.)
Definitions. In this Chapter: (1) "Consolidated city-county" means any county where the largest municipality in the county has been abolished and its powers, duties, rights, privileges and immunities consolidated with those of the county. Other municipalities in the county, if any, may or may not have been abolished an…
Powers of consolidated city-county. (a) A consolidated city-county shall have and may exercise or may hereafter be authorized or required to exercise the powers, duties, functions, rights, privileges, and immunities granted to: (1) A county under the Constitution and the general laws of the State of North Carolina, thr…
Dissolution of consolidated city-county; establishment of study commission; purposes and powers of study commission. (a) The governing board of a consolidated city-county may by resolution establish a governmental study commission to study all matters pertaining to the dissolution of the consolidated city-county and re…
Ethics. (a) The governing board shall adopt a resolution or policy containing a code of ethics, as required by G.S. 160A-86. (b) All members of the governing board, whether elected or appointed, shall receive the ethics education required by G.S. 160A-87. (2009-403, s. 5.)
Authority; purpose; administration. (a) The governing board may define any number of urban service districts in order to finance, provide or maintain for the districts services, facilities and functions in addition to or to a greater extent than those financed, provided, or maintained for the entire consolidated city-c…
Definition of urban service districts to replace municipalities abolished at the time of consolidation. (a) The governing board, by resolution, may define an urban service district within the boundaries of the largest municipality that existed in the county before consolidation and within the boundaries of any other mu…
Definition of urban service districts to replace municipalities abolished subsequent to consolidation. The governing board, by resolution, may define an urban service district within the boundaries of any municipality within the consolidated city-county the citizens of which, subsequent to the establishment of the cons…
Definition of urban service districts where no municipality existed. (a) Standards. - The governing board, by resolution, may define an urban service district upon finding that a proposed district: (1) Has a resident population of at least 1,000; (2) Has a resident population density of at least one person per acre; (3…
Extension of urban service districts. (a) Standards. - The governing board, by resolution, may extend by annexation the boundaries of any urban service district upon finding that: (1) The area to be annexed is contiguous to the district, with at least one eighth of the area's aggregate external boundary coincident with…
Consolidation of urban service districts. (a) Standards. - The governing board, by resolution, may consolidate two or more urban service districts upon finding that: (1) The districts are contiguous or are in a continuous boundary; and (2) The provision or maintenance of urban services, facilities and functions for eac…
Required provision or maintenance of services, facilities and functions. (a) New District. - When a consolidated city-county defines a new urban service district, it shall provide or maintain the services, facilities and functions for which the residents of the district are being taxed within a reasonable time, not to…
Abolition of urban service districts. Upon finding that there is no longer a need for a particular urban service district, the governing board, by resolution, may abolish that district. The governing board shall hold a public hearing prior to adoption of a resolution abolishing a district. Notice of the hearing shall s…
Taxes authorized; limits. A consolidated city-county may levy the following taxes within defined urban service districts in addition to those levied throughout the county, in order to finance, provide or maintain for the districts services, facilities and functions in addition to or to a greater extent than those finan…
Other allocation authorized. A consolidated city-county may allocate to any urban service district it creates any other revenues of the consolidated government whose use is not otherwise restricted by law. (1973, c. 537, s. 1.)
Authority to borrow money and issue bonds. A consolidated city-county may borrow money and issue its bonds under Chapter 159, Subchapter IV, and for those purposes shall be considered a unit of local government under Article 4 thereof and a municipality under Article 5 thereof. A consolidated city-county may borrow mon…
Procedure for issuing general obligation and revenue bonds. In issuing its general obligation and revenue bonds, a consolidated city-county, except as expressly modified by this chapter, is subject to the provisions of Chapter 159 of the General Statutes of North Carolina. If a proposed bond issue is required by law to…
Debt limitations. The net indebtedness in the form of general obligations of a consolidated city-county for school purposes may not exceed eight percent (8%) of the appraised valuation of taxable property in the county. The net indebtedness in the form of general obligations of a consolidated city-county for all purpos…
Applicability of this Article. (a) This Article applies to any county that has (i) a population over 120,000 according to the most recent federal decennial census and (ii) an area of less than 200 square miles. (b) If this section is declared unconstitutional or invalid by the courts, it does not affect the validity of…
Organizational meeting; preparation of budget. The governing board of a consolidated city-county shall have its first organizational meeting as provided in the charter or applicable local acts of the General Assembly, but not later than the first business day following the effective date of the consolidation. Unless ot…
Referendum approval of certain debt assumption required for consolidation; effective date of consolidation. (a) Referendum Approval of Certain Debt Assumption Required for Consolidation. - For the consolidation of a city with a county to be effective in accordance with the provisions hereof, the assumption by the conso…
Referendum on consolidation and on assumption of certain debt secured by a pledge of faith and credit; right to issue certain authorized but unissued debt secured by a pledge of faith and credit. (a) In connection with a city-county consolidation, if there exists at the effective date of the consolidation (i) any outst…
Local Government Commission review of assumption of debt secured by a pledge of faith and credit; assumption of debt secured by a pledge of faith and credit and right to issue authorized but unissued debt secured by a pledge of faith and credit upon consolidation. (a) Review by Local Government Commission. - At the dat…
Notice of enactment of consolidation; limitation of actions. (a) Publication of Notice of Enactment. - Following ratification of an act of the General Assembly authorizing consolidation, there shall be published once in a newspaper of general circulation in the county a notice of said enactment and, if applicable, the…