(a) Each county and each municipality shall annually determine the full cost for solid waste management within the service area of the county or municipality for the preceding year.  The Commission shall establish by rule the method for units of local government to use in calculating full cost.

(b) Each municipality shall establish a system to inform, no less than once a year, residential and nonresidential users of solid waste management services within the municipality’s service area of the user’s share, on an average or individual basis, of the full cost for solid waste management as determined pursuant to subsection (a) of this section.  Counties shall provide the information required of municipalities only to residential and nonresidential users of solid waste management services within the county’s service area that are not served by a municipality.  Municipalities shall include costs charged to them or to persons contracting with them for disposal of solid waste in the full cost information provided to residential and nonresidential users of solid waste management services.  Counties and municipalities are encouraged to operate their solid waste management systems through use of an enterprise fund.

(c) For purposes of this section, “service area” means the area in which the county or municipality provides, directly or by contract, solid waste management services.  The provisions of this section shall not be construed to require a person operating under a franchise contract or other agreement to collect or dispose of solid waste within the service area of a county or municipality to make the calculations or to establish a system to provide the information required under this section, unless such person agrees to do so as part of such franchise contract or other agreement.

(d) A county may charge fees for the collection, processing, or disposal of solid waste as provided in Article 15 of Chapter 153A of the N.C. Gen. Stat..  A city may charge fees for the collection, processing, or disposal of solid waste as provided in Article 16 of Chapter 160A of the N.C. Gen. Stat..

(e),  (f) Repealed by Session Laws 1995 (Regular Session, 1996), c. 594, s. 12. (1989, c. 784, s. 2; 1991, c. 621, s. 6; 1995 (Reg. Sess., 1996), c. 594, s. 12.)