Davis v. Town of Southern Pines

PHILLIPS, Judge.

The judgment appealed from dismissed petitioner’s declaratory judgment action to invalidate an ordinance of the Town of Southern *571Pines under which she was charged $950 for tapping onto the Town’s sewer line in front of her house. G.S. 160A-314(a) authorizes towns and cities to establish charges, fees and rates for their services and the ordinance involved was enacted pursuant thereto on 13 February 1979. It provides that “any property owner desiring to connect to the Town’s wastewater (sewage) collection system, where that system has been extended at Town expense and where no…