NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1969 SESSION

CHAPTER 785

SENATE BILL 597

AN ACT AUTHORIZING ANY BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS TO ACT AS A COUNTY HOUSING AUTHORITY.

The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

Section 1.  Section 157-33 of the General Statutes of North Carolina is amended as follows:

(a)  By deleting the words "having a population of more than sixty thousand (60,000)" in lines 2 and 3 thereof;

(b)  By inserting between the words "thereupon" and "appoint" in line 3 of the third paragraph the following phrase: "either (a) determine that the board of county commissioners shall itself constitute and act ex officio as an authority or (b)";

(c)  By inserting between the word "commissioners" and the semicolon at the end of clause (3) of the fourth paragraph a comma followed by the words: "except where the authority consists of the board of county commissioners ex officio."

Sec. 2.  Section 157-34 of the General Statutes is amended as follows:

(a)  By changing the comma after the word "mayor" in line 5 to a semicolon;

(b)  By inserting immediately thereafter the following phrase: "provided, that the board of county commissioners may determine in the case of any authority for its county that the board of county commissioners itself shall constitute and act ex officio as the authority.";

(c)  By deleting the word "and" from line 5;

(d)  By capitalizing the "E" which begins the word "except" in said line.

Sec. 3.  All laws and clauses of laws in conflict herewith are repealed to the extent of such conflict.

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

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 11th day of June, 1969.