NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1961 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 654

HOUSE BILL 744

 

 

AN ACT TO AUTHORIZE A TAX LEVY IN PERSON COUNTY FOR COUNTY BUILDING AND REPAIR PURPOSES.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

 

Section 1. The Board of County Commissioners of Person County, to meet the costs of erecting buildings for county office space and for general improvements and repairs, may annually levy a tax not to exceed fifteen cents (15¢) per one hundred dollar ($100.00) valuation of property on taxable property in the county, the proceeds of which, when added to other available funds, is calculated to produce, by accumulation during a period of years, sufficient funds to pay for the erection, improvement and repair of county office buildings as may be required to house the necessary county offices and county agencies. All funds raised and set aside for this purpose from such special levy or from other sources shall be placed in a sinking fund or otherwise earmarked and shall not be available or expended for any other purpose. The levy herein authorized is hereby declared to be for a necessary expense and for a special purpose.

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 All laws and clauses of laws in conflict with this Act are hereby repealed.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 6th day of June, 1961.