NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1969 SESSION

CHAPTER 1139

HOUSE BILL 286

AN ACT APPROPRIATING FUNDS FOR THE ESTABLISHMENT OF A LIVESTOCK WEIGHING STATION AT THE ASHE-ALLEGHANY COUNTY LINE AND ESTABLISHING A COMMITTEE TO OPERATE THE WEIGHING STATION.

The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

Section 1.  There is hereby created the Laurel Springs Livestock Weighing Station Committee.  The Committee shall consist of three persons.  One member shall be appointed by the County Commissioners of Ashe County.  One member shall be appointed by the County Commissioners of Alleghany County.  The third member of the Committee shall be chosen by the two members appointed by the County Commissioners of their respective County.  Membership on the Committee, as to those members chosen by the County Commissioners of their respective county, shall be for a period of four years.  Membership on the Committee, as to the member chosen by the members appointed by their respective County Commissioners, shall be for two years.  All members of the Committee shall be eligible to serve successive terms.  Members of the Committee shall serve without pay except that the members shall be entitled to reimbursement for their actual expenses incurred while on the business of the Committee.

Sec. 2. It shall be the duty of the Laurel Springs Livestock Weighing Station Committee to purchase not more than one acre of land at or near the Ashe-Alleghany County line near Laurel Springs and to establish thereon a livestock weighing station. The Committee shall purchase suitable scales for the weighing of livestock which scales shall have a minimum weighing capacity of ten thousand pounds. The Committee shall provide suitable housing for the scales and shall employ one or more persons to operate and maintain the weighing station. The Committee shall establish a set of fees for the weighing of cattle which fee schedule shall be sufficient to operate and maintain the weighing station and all expenses, including salaries and repairs, incident thereto. No person, firm or corporation shall be permitted to use the weighing station scales without payment of the appropriate fee. The Committee shall establish the hours when the weighing station will be operated and shall make such rules as are necessary for the proper and efficient operation of the weighing station.

Sec. 3. The weighing station herein authorized is primarily for the use of the livestock farmers of Ashe and Alleghany Counties and the Upper Mountain Experiment Station but any person, firm or corporation shall have the right to use the scales of the weighing station upon the payment of the fee set by the Committee.

Sec. 4. There is hereby appropriated to the Laurel Springs Livestock Weighing Station Committee out of the General Fund of the State the sum of six thousand dollars ($6,000.00), to be used by the Committee to purchase land, scales and such other equipment as is necessary for the establishment of the weighing station. The money herein appropriated may also be used to erect a suitable building on the land purchased.

Sec. 5. All laws and clauses of laws in conflict with this Act are hereby repealed.

Sec. 6. This Act shall become effective on July 1, 1969.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 30th day of June, 1969.