NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1969 SESSION

CHAPTER 92

HOUSE BILL 201

AN ACT TO AMEND CHAPTER 598 OF THE SESSION LAWS OF 1967 AUTHORIZING USE OF NON-TAX REVENUES FOR RECREATIONAL PURPOSES IN MECKLENBURG COUNTY.

The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

Section 1. Section 1 of Chapter 598 of the Session Laws of 1967 is rewritten to provide as follows:

"Section 1. The Board of Commissioners of Mecklenburg County is authorized in its discretion to appropriate in each fiscal year a sum not in excess of ten (10) per cent of the total non-tax revenues received in that fiscal year to be appropriated out of the non-tax revenues for that year, to the Mecklenburg County Recreation Commission, or its successor, or any body set up in lieu thereof, which body shall perform the functions now delegated to the Mecklenburg County Recreation Commission, to be used and accounted for in accordance with the provisions of Article 12 of Chapter 160 of the General Statutes. This Section shall not be construed as limiting the total amount of funds available for said purposes or preventing the Board of Commissioners of Mecklenburg County from appropriating or otherwise providing other or additional funds for recreational purposes from any other lawful source whatever, including but not limited to, proceeds of bond issues or tax revenues."

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

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 All laws and clauses of laws in conflict with the provisions of this Act are hereby repealed.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 19th day of March, 1969.