NC S434

The Environmental Management Commission shall adopt a resolution dissolving a metropolitan sewerage district and transferring its assets and liabilities to an adjacent district in the same county when specific conditions are met.

Eligible districts must be located in a county with a population under 15,000 and at least nine incorporated municipalities, with both districts collectively serving at least six of those municipalities and having contiguous service areas.

The district being dissolved must not directly provide sewerage services to customers and must lease its assets to the receiving district.

Both district boards must adopt resolutions requesting the merger, and the Environmental Management Commission must hold a public hearing after notice is posted at the courthouse and published weekly for four successive weeks, with the first notice at least 30 days before the hearing.

The merger becomes effective July 1 following Environmental Management Commission approval, with all property, assets, debts, liabilities, and legal proceedings transferring to the merged district, while the dissolved district is abolished as of that date.