NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1969 SESSION

CHAPTER 493

HOUSE BILL 782

AN ACT AUTHORIZING THE BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS OF JONES COUNTY TO MAKE AVAILABLE TO THE JONES COUNTY WATERSHED IMPROVEMENT COMMISSION, FROM AD VALOREM TAX MONIES, FUNDS SUFFICIENT FOR SUCH COMMISSION TO PAY ASSESSMENTS MADE AGAINST LAND OWNERS IN JONES COUNTY BY THE LENOIR, CRAVEN AND JONES COUNTY DRAINAGE DISTRICT #1 AND TO AUTHORIZE SUCH COMMISSION TO PAY SUCH ASSESSMENTS.

The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

Section 1.  The Board of County Commissioners of Jones County is hereby authorized to make available to the Jones County Watershed Improvement Commission, from ad valorem tax monies collected by the county and available in its general fund, such funds as shall be sufficient for the Jones County Watershed Improvement Commission to pay all or any part of assessments made against land owners in Jones County by the Lenoir, Craven and Jones County Drainage District #1, without regard to whether such assessments have been prepaid by such land owners, and the Board of Commissioners of Jones County is hereby authorized to permit the Jones County Watershed Improvement Commission to apply such funds in payment of such assessments.

Sec. 2. This Act shall apply only to Jones County.

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

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 14th day of May 1969.