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H. 4625

STATUS INFORMATION

General Bill
Sponsors: Reps. Cooper, Thompson, Martin, Stille and Townsend
Document Path: l:\council\bills\dka\3719dw04.doc

Introduced in the House on January 28, 2004
Currently residing in the House Committee on Judiciary

Summary: Special purpose and public service districts, assessments to defray cost of water lines, definitions

HISTORY OF LEGISLATIVE ACTIONS

     Date      Body   Action Description with journal page number
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   1/28/2004  House   Introduced and read first time HJ-6
   1/28/2004  House   Referred to Committee on Judiciary HJ-6

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VERSIONS OF THIS BILL

1/28/2004

TO AMEND SECTIONS 6-11-1220 AND 6-11-1230, AS AMENDED, CODE OF LAWS OF SOUTH CAROLINA, 1976, RELATING TO DEFINITIONS PERTAINING TO SPECIAL PURPOSE AND PUBLIC SERVICE DISTRICTS AND THE POWERS OF COMMISSIONS OF THESE DISTRICTS, SO AS TO AUTHORIZE THE IMPOSITION OF ASSESSMENTS TO BE USED TO DEFRAY THE COST OF WATER DISTRIBUTION LINES AND TO CLARIFY THE DEFINITION OF WATER "COLLECTION LINES".

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of South Carolina:

SECTION    1.    Section 6-11-1220(g) and (h) of the 1976 Code are amended to read:

"(g)    The term 'Front-foot assessment' shall mean means the assessment levied to reimburse a district for that portion of the cost of installing sewer laterals ( water distribution lines and lateral collection lines) imposed by the commission on a front-foot basis or each parcel basis.

(h)    The term 'Lateral collection lines' shall mean means the sewer collection system, including gravity system, to include lines, pump stations, lift stations and force drains mains, utilized to transmit wastewater to either a central or master transmission station."

SECTION    2.    Section 6-11-1220 of the 1976 Code is amended by adding:

"(i)    'Water distribution lines' means pipes of any description utilized to distribute potable water and includes all these lines abutting parcels to be assessed in accordance with Section 6-11-1230(4)."

SECTION    3.    The first paragraph of Section 6-11-1230(4) of the 1976 Code, as last amended by Act 597 of 1988, is further amended to read:

"To provide by resolution that the actual cost of the establishment and construction of a water distribution line or sewer lateral collection line hereafter constructed by the commission and an extension of a water or lateral collection line within the district, or so much of the actual cost as the commission considers appropriate, must be assessed subject to the provisions of the next paragraph upon the lots and parcels of land abutting directly on the lateral line or extension of a line according to the extent of the respective frontage on them, by an equal rate per for each foot of frontage; but the commission may provide, in the instance of corner lots, for an assessment considered to be equitable. If the area to be served is part of a development plan or zoned for residential use, then an assessment may be levied by the commission on a parcel or per on each unit basis rather than on a front-foot basis. As used in this section, 'front-foot assessment' includes assessments levied on a parcel or per each unit basis. The commission may provide in the resolution that the front-foot assessments to be levied in connection with the installations may be paid in equal installments covering a period of not exceeding twenty years. The deferred payments are payable annually within the period that county taxes are payable and late payments must be penalized to the same extent as in the case of county taxes."

SECTION    4.    Subitem (b) of the third paragraph of Section 6-11-1230(4) of the 1976 Code is amended to read:

"(b)    Upon the completion of the construction of any such sewer laterals water distribution lines or lateral collection lines or any extensions thereof to them, the commission shall compute and ascertain the total cost thereof of them and shall thereupon make an assessment of such the total cost or so much thereof of it as it deems appropriate. For that purpose, the commission shall make out an assessment roll in which must be entered the names of the persons assessed and the amount assessed against their respective properties with a brief description of the lots or parcels of land assessed."

SECTION    5.    This act takes effect upon approval by the Governor.

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