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AN ACT CONCERNING LOCAL. MATTERS IN ORANGE COUNTY. <br /> The General Assembly of North Carolina Enacts: <br /> Section 1. G.S. 153A-331 is amended by identifying the ex- <br /> isting provisions as subsection (a) and by adding new subsections <br /> to read: <br /> (b) Impact Fees Authorized. <br /> 1) Orange County may provide by ordinance for a sys- <br /> tem of impact fees to be paid by developers to help defray the <br /> costs to the County of constructing certain capital improvements, <br /> the need for which is created in substantial part by the new <br /> development that takes place within the County. <br /> 2) For purposes of this subsection, the term capital <br /> improvements includes capital improvements to public streets, <br /> schools, bridges, sidewalks, bikeways, on and off street surface water drainage <br /> ditches., pipes, culverts, other water and sewer facilities, and public <br /> recreation facilities. <br /> 3) An ordinance adopted under this subsection may be <br /> made applicable to all development that occurs within the County. <br /> 4) The County may cooperate with the State in the <br /> construction of capital improvements to State highway system <br /> streets within Orange County. <br /> (c) Amount of Fees. <br /> 1) In establishing the amount of any impact fee, the <br /> County shall endeavor to approach the objective of having every <br /> development contribute to a capital improvements fund an amount <br /> of revenue that bears a reasonable relationship to that <br />