NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1969 SESSION

CHAPTER 78

SENATE BILL 182

AN ACT TO VALIDATE THE PUBLICATION OF NOTICE OF A SPECIAL BOND ELECTION TO BE HELD IN THE CITY OF SANFORD EVEN THOUGH THE DATES BETWEEN THE FIRST AND LAST PUBLICATION OF SUCH NOTICE IS LESS THAN THIRTY DAYS.

The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

Section 1.  Notwithstanding the fact that a special water and sewer bond election is to be held on March 29, 1969 in the City of Sanford, pursuant to which notice was to be published in the newspaper on three days with at least one week between publications, and notwithstanding the fact that by error in computation of the publication date, it is impossible to complete the publication on the date set for the election, the publication of said special election is hereby validated as if the same had been duly published on three occasions with intervals of at least one week between said publications and an interval of thirty days from the first publication to the date of said election.  It is the intention of this Act that the bond election to be held on March 29, 1969 in the City of Sanford shall in no wise be invalidated by the fact that publication of notice is not in compliance with the Resolution of the County Board of Elections or with any requirement of the General Statutes of North Carolina relative to publication.

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

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 All laws and clauses of laws in conflict with this Act are hereby repealed.

Sec. 4. This Act shall become effective upon ratification.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 17th day of March, 1969.