S.L. 1969-1043

1969 SESSION

CHAPTER 1043

HOUSE BILL 1184

AN ACT TO TRANSFER ALL OF THE SCHOOL PROPERTY, BOTH REAL AND PERSONAL, OF THE GLEN ALPINE CITY SCHOOL UNIT TO THE BURKE COUNTY SCHOOL SYSTEM SINCE THESE UNITS HAVE BEEN MERGED.

The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

Section 1. That all of the property, both real and personal, heretofore owned and held by the Glen Alpine Graded School District, the Morganton Graded School District, and the Burke County Board of Education, and all books, records, equipment and supplies, all moneys, funds on hand, or funds heretofore budgeted and allocated to the above school administrative units and their governing authorities, as well as all debts, liabilities and obligations, be, and the same are hereby, transferred from the Glen Alpine Graded School District, from Morganton Graded School District, and from the Burke County Board of Education, and title to all such property, both real and personal, choses in action, and property of any nature and description whatsoever, is hereby transferred to and vested in the Burke County Public Schools Board of Education.

Sec. 2. It shall be the duty of the State Superintendent of Public Instruction to prepare a certificate of merger or consolidation which shall show the transfer of property authorized by this Act and to certify said certificate of merger or consolidation to the Register of Deeds of Burke County, and the same shall be registered by the Register of Deeds in the same manner as deeds, and for the same fees, but no formalities as to acknowledgement, probate, or approval by any other officer shall be required. The name of the school units set forth in this Act which formerly owned the school property covered by this Act shall appear in the "Grantor" index, and the name of the school unit or school board now owning said school property by virtue of the merger or consolidation, the same being Burke County Public Schools Board of Education, shall appear in the "Grantee" index.

Sec. 3. All laws and clauses of laws in conflict with the provisions of this Act are hereby repealed.

Sec. 4. This Act shall be in full force and effect from and after its ratification.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 26th day of June, 1969.