§ 156-93.7. Existing districts may act together to extend boundaries within watershed. - North Carolina Statutes

§ 156‑93.7. Existing districts may act together to extend boundaries within watershed.

If there shall be more than one drainage district in a drainage basin,or watershed, the board of drainage commissioners of any of the districts mayinitiate or join separately or collectively with the commissioners of one ormore of other drainage districts, in the drainage basin or watershed, and/orwith the owners of land within the drainage basin, whose lands are not includedwithin an existing drainage district in a petition to the court, asking for thecreation  of a larger drainage district, or the extension of boundaries of oneof the existing districts.

The joinder in the petition by the commissioners of an existingdrainage district, acting in the name of the district, shall have the effect ofincluding all of the land assessed within the drainage district, in thepetition asking for the creation of the larger drainage district or theextension of boundaries of an existing district. The total area of assessed land,within the existing drainage district shall be included, as land in thepetition, in determining whether or not the requirement of G.S. 156‑93.3(3) b have been fulfilled.

The provisions of this section shall apply in proceedings provided  forin G.S. 156‑93.2 and 156‑93.3. (1961, c. 614, s. 1; 1965, c. 1143, s. 5.)