NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1969 SESSION

CHAPTER 742

HOUSE BILL 989

AN ACT TO CLARIFY THE STATUTE RELATING TO THE CONSOLIDATION AND MERGER OF COUNTY AND CITY SCHOOL ADMINISTRATIVE UNITS LOCATED IN THE SAME COUNTY.

The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

Section 1.  Subparagraph (6) of the second paragraph of G.S. 115-74.1, as the same appears in the 1967 Supplement to Volume 3A, is hereby rewritten to read as follows:

"(6)      Whether or not there shall be continued in force any supplemental school tax which may be in effect in either or all administrative units involved".

Sec. 2.  G.S. 115-74.1, as the same appears in the 1967 Supplement to Volume 3A of the General Statutes, is hereby amended by adding thereto another paragraph, which shall read as follows:

"Upon approval of the plan of consolidation or merger by the State Board of Education, or upon approval of the plan of consolidation or merger by the voters in a referendum or election called for such purpose, and as soon as a provisional or interim board of education of the merged unit, or a permanent board of education of the merged unit, enters in and upon the duties of the administration of the public schools of the consolidated or merged unit, then the former boards of education and all public officers of the former boards of education of the separate units thus merged shall stand abolished, and said separate boards of education or administrative units thus merged shall stand dissolved and shall cease to exist for any and all purposes. All consolidations and mergers of county and city boards of education and of county and city administrative units heretofore agreed to and finally approved, and all consolidation or merger proceedings entered into prior to the effective date of this Act are hereby declared to be effective, legal and according to law notwithstanding any defect in the merger or consolidation proceedings and notwithstanding any dissolution of the separate boards of education and public officers of the former, separate school units."

Sec. 3.  All laws and clauses of laws in conflict with the provisions of this Act are hereby repealed.

Sec. 4.  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 9th day of June, 1969.