North Carolina SB 731: 20th Senatorial District Local Act-1.

Bill Text

GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA
SESSION 2025
S 1
SENATE BILL 731

Short Title: County Service Districts/Research & URSD. (Public)
Sponsors: Senator Murdock (Primary Sponsor).
Referred to: Rules and Operations of the Senate
March 26, 2025
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A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1
AN ACT MAKING CHANGES TO THE LAWS RELATED TO RESEARCH AND 2
PRODUCTION SERVICE DISTRICTS AND URBAN RESEARCH SERVICE 3
DISTRICTS. 4
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts: 5
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PART I. RESEARCH AND PRODUCTION SERVICE DISTRICT 7
SECTION 1.1. G.S. 153A-311 reads as rewritten: 8
"§ 153A-311. Purposes for which districts may be established. 9
The board of commissioners of any county may define a county research and production 10
service district in order to finance, provide, and maintain for the district any service, facility, or 11
function that a county or a city is authorized by general law to provide, finance, or maintain. 12
maintain in its territorial jurisdiction. Such a service, facility, or function shall be financed, 13
provided, or maintained in the district either in addition to or to a greater extent than services, 14
facilities, or functions are financed, provided, or maintained for the entire county." 15
SECTION 1.2. G.S. 153A-313 reads as rewritten: 16
"§ 153A-313. Research and production service district advisory committee. 17
(a) The board or boards of commissioners, in the resolution establishing a research and 18
production service district, shall also provide for an advisory committee for the district. Such a 19
committee shall have at least 10 members, serving terms as set forth in the resolution; one 20
member shall be the representative of the developer of the research and production park 21
established as a research and production service district. The resolution shall provide for the 22
appointment or designation of a chair. The board of commissioners or, in the case of a 23
multi-county district, the boards of commissioners shall appoint the members of the advisory 24
committee. If a multi-county district is established, the concurrent resolutions establishing the 25
district shall provide the number of members of the advisory committee, which shall be at least 26
10, and how many members of the advisory committee are to be appointed by each board of 27
commissioners. commissioners. The concurrent resolutions may allow for the appointments to 28
be divided among the counties proportionate to the respective size of the research and production 29
service district. Before making the appointments, the appropriate board shall request the 30
association of owners and tenants, required by G.S. 153A-312(a), to submit a list of persons to 31
be considered for appointment to the committee; the association shall submit at least two names 32
for each appointment to be made. Except as provided in the next two sentences, the board of 33
commissioners shall make the appointments to the committee from the list of persons submitted. 34
In addition, the developer of the research and production park shall appoint one person to the 35
advisory committee as the developer's representative on the committee. In addition, in a single 36

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county district, the board of commissioners may make two additional appointments of such other 1
persons as the board of commissioners deems appropriate, and in a multi-county district, each 2
board of county commissioners may make one additional appointment of such other person as 3
that board of commissioners deems appropriate. Whenever a vacancy occurs on the committee 4
in a position filled by appointment by the board of commissioners, the appropriate board, before 5
filling the vacancy, shall request the association to submit the names of at least two persons to 6
be considered for the vacancy; and the board shall fill the vacancy by appointing one of the 7
persons so submitted, except that if the vacancy is in a position appointed by the board of 8
commissioners under the preceding sentence of this section, the board of commissioners making 9
that appointment shall fill the vacancy with such person as that board of commissioners deems 10
appropriate. 11
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SECTION 1.3. G.S. 153A-314 reads as rewritten: 13
"§ 153A-314. Extension of service districts. 14
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(a1) Multi-County Districts. – If territory that lies wholly in one county is to be annexed 16
to a multi-county district, only the board of commissioners of that county is required to adopt a 17
resolution annexing the territory. In annexing territory under this subsection, the board of 18
commissioners shall comply with the provisions of this section. 19
...." 20
SECTION 1.4. G.S. 153A-315 reads as rewritten: 21
"§ 153A-315. Required provision or maintenance of services. 22
(a) New District. – When a county or counties define a research and production service 23
district, it or they shall provide, maintain, or let contracts for the services for whi