NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1963 SESSION

CHAPTER 1162

HOUSE BILL 1349

AN ACT TO AMEND CHAPTER 1281, SESSION LAWS OF 1957, RELATING TO THE CHARTER OF THE CITY OF NEW BERN.

The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

Section 1. Section 1 of Chapter 1281, Session Laws of 1957, is hereby amended by adding thereto two additional subsections, to be designated as subsections (7) and (8), respectively, and to read as follows:

"(7)     To expend funds from utility revenues for the purpose of advertising the city utilities.

(8)       To appropriate annually such funds as the board of aldermen shall deem reasonable for the purpose of advertising the city or promoting the public interest and general welfare of the city, such appropriation to be to any association in the city which is organized for the purpose of advertising the city or promoting the public interest and general welfare of the city; provided, however, that any such appropriation which is hereby declared to be for a public purpose shall be from funds of the city derived from sources other than taxation."

Sec. 2. All laws and clauses of laws in conflict with this Act are hereby repealed.

Sec. 3. This Act shall become effective upon its ratification.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 24th day of June, 1963.