NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1969 SESSION

CHAPTER 1191

HOUSE BILL 1326

AN ACT AUTHORIZING WATERSHED IMPROVEMENT PROGRAMS IN MECKLENBURG COUNTY AND TO AUTHORIZE MECKLENBURG COUNTY TO LEVY, COLLECT AND EXPEND FUNDS FOR WATERSHED IMPROVEMENT PROGRAMS.

The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

Section 1.  The Board of County Commissioners of Mecklenburg County is hereby authorized to exercise power and authority under Article 3 of Chapter 139 of the North Carolina General Statutes, for that purpose to levy, collect and expend funds derived from a special "watershed improvement tax", not to exceed two cents (2¢) on each one hundred dollar ($100.00) valuation of property in said county, by appropriate resolution of the board and without an election provided for under G.S. 139-39 and G.S. 139-40.  The expenditure of funds derived from the special tax for the purposes of Article 3, Chapter 139, of the General Statutes is hereby declared to be for a special purpose for which the special approval of the General Assembly is hereby given, and a necessary expense.

Sec. 2. All laws and clauses of laws in conflict with this Act are hereby repealed.

Sec. 3. 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 1st day of July, 1969.