NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1969 SESSION

CHAPTER 934

HOUSE BILL 160

AN ACT PERTAINING TO ARTICLE 3, CHAPTER 139 OF THE GENERAL STATUTES AS THE SAME RELATES TO A WATER SHED IMPROVEMENT PROGRAM IN LINCOLN COUNTY.

The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

Section 1.  The Board of County Commissioners of Lincoln County is hereby authorized to exercise power and authority under Article 3 of Chapter 139 of the North Carolina General Statutes, and for that purpose to levy, collect and expend funds derived from a special "water-shed improvement tax", not to exceed three cents ($.03) on each one hundred dollar ($100,00) valuation of property in said county, by appropriate resolution of the board and without an election provided for under G.S. 139-39 and G.S. 139-40. The expenditure of funds derived from the special tax for the purposes of Article 3, Chapter 139 of the General Statutes is hereby declared to be for a special purpose for which the special approval of the General Assembly is hereby given, and a necessary expense.

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  All laws and clauses of laws in conflict with this Act are hereby repealed.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