North Carolina General Statutes Chapter 160B Consolidated City-County Act

Article 1 - Title and Definition.

N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160B-1. Title; effective date
This Chapter shall be cited as the "Consolidated City-County Act of 1973" and is enacted pursuant to Article V, Sec. 2(4) of the North...
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160B-2. Definitions
In this Chapter: (1) "Consolidated city-county" means any county where the largest municipality in the county has been abolished and its powers, duties, rights,...

Article 1A - Consolidated City-County Powers and Governance.

N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160B-2.1. Powers of consolidated city-county
(a) A consolidated city-county shall have and may exercise or may hereafter be authorized or required to exercise the powers, duties, functions, rights, privileges,...
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160B-2.2. Dissolution of consolidated city-county; establishment of study commission; purposes and powers of study commission
(a) The governing board of a consolidated city-county may by resolution establish a governmental study commission to study all matters pertaining to the dissolution...
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160B-2.3. Ethics
(a) The governing board shall adopt a resolution or policy containing a code of ethics, as required by G.S. 160A-86. (b) All members of...
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160B-2.4. Reserved for future codification purposes
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160B-2.5. Reserved for future codification purposes
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160B-2.6. Reserved for future codification purposes

Article 2 - Defining Urban Service Districts.

N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160B-3. Authority; purpose; administration
(a) The governing board may define any number of urban service districts in order to finance, provide or maintain for the districts services, facilities...
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160B-4. Definition of urban service districts to replace municipalities abolished at the time of consolidation
(a) The governing board, by resolution, may define an urban service district within the boundaries of the largest municipality that existed in the county...
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160B-5. Definition of urban service districts to replace municipalities abolished subsequent to consolidation
The governing board, by resolution, may define an urban service district within the boundaries of any municipality within the consolidated city-county the citizens of...
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160B-6. Definition of urban service districts where no municipality existed
(a) Standards. - The governing board, by resolution, may define an urban service district upon finding that a proposed district: (1) Has a resident...
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160B-7. Extension of urban service districts
(a) Standards. - The governing board, by resolution, may extend by annexation the boundaries of any urban service district upon finding that: (1) The...
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160B-8. Consolidation of urban service districts
(a) Standards. - The governing board, by resolution, may consolidate two or more urban service districts upon finding that: (1) The districts are contiguous...
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160B-9. Required provision or maintenance of services, facilities and functions
(a) New District. - When a consolidated city-county defines a new urban service district, it shall provide or maintain the services, facilities and functions...
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160B-10. Abolition of urban service districts
Upon finding that there is no longer a need for a particular urban service district, the governing board, by resolution, may abolish that district....

Article 3 - Levy of Taxes in Urban Service Districts.

N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160B-11. Taxes authorized; limits
A consolidated city-county may levy the following taxes within defined urban service districts in addition to those levied throughout the county, in order to...

Article 4 - Allocation of Other Revenues.

N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160B-12. Other allocation authorized
A consolidated city-county may allocate to any urban service district it creates any other revenues of the consolidated government whose use is not otherwise...
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160B-13. Authority to borrow money and issue bonds
A consolidated city-county may borrow money and issue its bonds under Chapter 159, Subchapter IV, and for those purposes shall be considered a unit...
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160B-14. Procedure for issuing general obligation and revenue bonds
In issuing its general obligation and revenue bonds, a consolidated city-county, except as expressly modified by this chapter, is subject to the provisions of...
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160B-15. Debt limitations
The net indebtedness in the form of general obligations of a consolidated city-county for school purposes may not exceed eight percent (8%) of the...

Article 5 - Assumption of Obligations and Debt Secured By a Pledge of Faith and Credit.

N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160B-16. Applicability of this Article
(a) This Article applies to any county that has (i) a population over 120,000 according to the most recent federal decennial census and (ii)...
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160B-17. Organizational meeting; preparation of budget
The governing board of a consolidated city-county shall have its first organizational meeting as provided in the charter or applicable local acts of the...
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160B-18. Referendum approval of certain debt assumption required for consolidation; effective date of consolidation
(a) Referendum Approval of Certain Debt Assumption Required for Consolidation. - For the consolidation of a city with a county to be effective in...
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160B-19. Referendum on consolidation and on assumption of certain debt secured by a pledge of faith and credit; right to issue certain authorized but unissued debt secured by a pledge of faith and credit
(a) In connection with a city-county consolidation, if there exists at the effective date of the consolidation (i) any outstanding debt secured by a...
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160B-20. Local Government Commission review of assumption of debt secured by a pledge of faith and credit; assumption of debt secured by a pledge of faith and credit and right to issue authorized but unissued debt secured by a pledge of faith and credit upon consolidation
(a) Review by Local Government Commission. - At the date specified in the following sentence if any consolidating city or county has outstanding any...
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160B-21. Notice of enactment of consolidation; limitation of actions
(a) Publication of Notice of Enactment. - Following ratification of an act of the General Assembly authorizing consolidation, there shall be published once in...

Last modified: March 23, 2014