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S184 • 2025

System Development Fees/Exemption.

System Development Fees/Exemption.

Passed Legislature

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Sponsor
Lowe, Waddell
Last action
2025-02-27
Official status
Ref To Com On Rules and Operations of the Senate
Effective date
Not listed

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System Development Fees/Exemption.

System Development Fees/Exemption.

What This Bill Does

  • System Development Fees/Exemption.

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Bill History

  1. 2025-02-27 Senate

    Ref To Com On Rules and Operations of the Senate

  2. 2025-02-27 Senate

    Passed 1st Reading

  3. 2025-02-26 Senate

    Filed

Official Summary Text

System Development Fees/Exemption.

Current Bill Text

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GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA
SESSION 2025
S 1
SENATE BILL 184

Short Title: System Development Fees/Exemption. (Public)
Sponsors: Senator Lowe (Primary Sponsor).
Referred to: Rules and Operations of the Senate
February 27, 2025
*S184-v-1*
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1
AN ACT GRANTING LOCA L GOVERNMENT UNITS T HE AUTHORITY TO EXEM PT 2
PROPERTY BEING DEVEL OPED FOR AFFORDABLE HOUSING FROM SYSTEM 3
DEVELOPMENT FEES. 4
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts: 5
SECTION 1. G.S. 162A-203 reads as rewritten: 6
"§ 162A-203. Authorization of system development fee. 7
(a) A local governmental unit may adopt a system development fee for water or sewer 8
service only in accordance with the conditions and limitations of this Article. 9
(b) A system development fee adopted by a local governmental unit under any lawful 10
authority other than this Article and in effect on October 1, 2017, shall be conformed to the 11
requirements of this Article not later than July 1, 2018. 12
(c) A local government unit or a joint agency created pur suant to G.S. 160A-461 may 13
exempt affordable housing parcel s from a system d evelopment fee imposed pursuant to this 14
Article. The unit or joint agency shall adopt criteria for determining whether a parcel qualifies 15
for the exemption." 16
SECTION 2. This act is effective when it becomes law. 17