NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1969 SESSION

CHAPTER 316

HOUSE BILL 558

AN ACT TO AUTHORIZE THE TOWN OF HIGHLANDS IN MACON COUNTY TO MAKE APPROPRIATIONS FROM NONTAX FUNDS FOR CERTAIN PUBLIC PURPOSES.

The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

Section 1. The governing body of the Town of Highlands in Macon County is hereby authorized and empowered to appropriate annually from nontax funds a sum not exceeding two thousand dollars ($2,000.00) annually for the purpose of advertising the Town, promoting the tourist industry and other industries, and to pay portions of said authorized appropriation to the Highlands Chamber of Commerce, the Highlands Public Library, the Highlands Community Hospital, the Highlands Cemetery, for the purpose of achieving or carrying out any governmental public purpose which a municipality may be authorized to accomplish. Any ordinance or resolution appropriating funds of the Town of Highlands to the organizations named herein shall state the purpose or purposes for which the funds are to be spent, and they may be expended for no other purpose. The governing body of the Town of Highlands shall require each organization receiving municipal funds pursuant to authority conferred by this Act to account periodically for the expenditure of said funds.

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 All laws and clauses of laws in conflict with this Act are hereby repealed.

Sec. 3. This Act shall become effective upon its ratification.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified this the 28th day of April, 1969.