<div class="chunk-title">Sec. 58-59. - Waiver of water and sewer assessments.</div>
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               (a)
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               <span class="ital">Purpose of section.</span> The purpose of this section is to help mitigate the financial impacts on farmers
               by some local and state capital investments unused by such farmers.
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               (b)
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               <span class="ital">Procedure.</span> The waiver procedure shall be as follows:
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               (1)
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               Landowners belonging to VAD or EVAD shall not be assessed for, or required to connect
               to, county water and/or sewer systems.
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               (2)
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               Water and sewer assessments shall be held in abeyance, without interest, for farms
               inside a VAD or EVAD, until improvements on such property are connected to the water
               or sewer system for which the assessment was made.
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               (3)
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               When the period of abeyance ends, the assessment is payable in accordance with the
               terms set out in the assessment resolution.
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               (4)
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               Statutes of limitations are suspended during the time that any assessment is held
               in abeyance without interest.
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               (5)
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               Assessment procedures followed under G.S. 153A-185 et seq. shall conform to the terms
               of this article with respect to qualifying farms that entered into preservation agreements
               while such article was in effect.
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               (6)
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               Nothing in this section is intended to diminish the authority of the county to hold
               assessments in abeyance under G.S. 153A-201.
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               (c)
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               <span class="ital">Conflict with county water and/or sewer system construction and improvements grants.</span> To the extent that this section conflicts with the terms of federal, state, or other
               grants under which county utility systems are constructed this section shall not apply.
               This section shall not apply to utilities that are not owned by the county unless
               the county has entered into an agreement with the entity(ies) owning the utilities
               and that agreement provides that this article shall apply.
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               (
               <a class="ordinance-link" href="" data-product-id="12776" data-ordinance-id="797622">
                  Ord. No. 16-11-01
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               , Â§ 1(Exh. A), 11-1-16)
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