§ 156-78.1. Municipalities. - North Carolina Statutes

§ 156‑78.1. Municipalities.

(a)        Any municipality may participate in drainage district worksor projects upon mutually agreeable terms relating to such matters as theconstruction, financing, maintenance and operation thereof.

(b)        Any municipality may contribute funds toward theconstruction,  maintenance and operation of drainage district works orprojects, to the extent that such works or projects:

(1)        Provide a source of municipal water supply for themunicipality, or protect an existing source of such supply, enhance its qualityor increase its dependable capacity or quantity, or implement or facilitate thedisposal of sewage of the municipality; or

(2)        Protect against or alleviate the effects of floodwater orsediment damages affecting, or provide drainage benefits for property owned bythe municipality or its inhabitants.

(c)        Municipal expenditures for the aforesaid purposes aredeclared to be for necessary expenses. Municipalities may enter continuingcontracts, some portion or all of which may be performed in an ensuing year,agreeing to make periodic payments in ensuing fiscal years to drainagedistricts in consideration of benefits set forth in subsection (b)(2) of thissection, but no such contract may be entered into unless sufficient funds have beenappropriated to meet any amount to be paid under the contract in the fiscalyear in which the contract is made. The municipal governing body shall, in thebudget ordinance of each ensuing fiscal year during which any such contract isin effect, appropriate sufficient funds to meet the amount to be paid under thecontract in such ensuing fiscal year. The statement required by G.S. 160‑411.1to be printed, written or typewritten on all contracts, agreements, orrequisitions requiring the payment of moneys shall be placed on such acontinuing contract only if sufficient funds have been appropriated to meet theamount to be paid under the contract in the fiscal year in which the contractis made.

(d)        The provisions of this section are permissive. If a municipalitydoes not participate in accordance with the provisions of this section, thenthe other provisions of Subchapter III shall apply and be followed. (1961, c. 614, s. 10.)