NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1963 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 883

HOUSE BILL 1220

 

 

AN ACT RELATING TO THE HOLDING AND LICENSING OF CARNIVALS WITHIN ORANGE COUNTY.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

 

Section 1. Chapter 670 of the Session Laws of 1947 entitled "An Act to Restrict the Licensing of Carnivals Within Orange County" is hereby amended by rewriting Section 1 thereof so as to read as follows:

"Section 1. No person, firm or corporation shall apply for or obtain from the governing body, or the representative of such governing body, or any county, or any incorporated city or town, any license or permit to exhibit, show or operate any carnival within Orange County and Transylvania County for a continuous operation or exhibition of over one day's time; provided, however, that carnivals may be permitted to continuously operate in Orange County for more than one (1) day at a time if such carnivals are engaged to operate in conjunction with a legitimate agricultural or industrial fair sponsored by a bona fide civic or charitable organization within Orange County.

"It is the purpose and intent of this Act that carnivals shall not operate in Orange County and Transylvania County over one (1) day at a time, and upon completion of one day's showing shall remove its equipment and shows from said county, except as specifically herein provided as to Orange County."

Sec. 2. All laws and clauses of laws in conflict with the provisions of this Act are hereby repealed.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 12th day of June, 1963.