NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1969 SESSION

CHAPTER 573

SENATE BILL 478

AN ACT TO AMEND CHAPTER 115, SESSION LAWS OF 1963, THE CHARTER OF THE CITY OF LUMBERTON, WITH REFERENCE TO LOCAL IMPROVEMENTS.

The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

Section 1. Section 1 of Chapter 115, Session Laws of 1963, is hereby amended by rewriting subsection (c) of Section 7 of Article XIII to read as follows:

"(c)      Except as otherwise provided in subsection (d) the petition shall be signed by at least thirty-five per cent (35%) of the owners, which owners must own at least thirty-five per cent (35%) of the lineal feet of frontage of the lands abutting the street or streets or part of a street or streets proposed to be improved, excluding street intersections."

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 All laws and clauses of laws in conflict with this Act are hereby repealed.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 22nd day of May, 1969.