NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1965 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 488

HOUSE BILL 539

 

 

AN ACT TO AUTHORIZE COUNTY COMMISSIONERS TO DESIGNATE AN OFFICER OR EMPLOYEE OTHER THAN THE COUNTY ACCOUNTANT TO COUNTERSIGN WARRANTS IN CERTAIN CASES.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

 

Section 1.  Subdivision (2) of G.S. 115-90, as the same appears in the 1960 Replacement Volume 3A of the General Statutes, is hereby amended by adding a comma after the word "require" in line 7 and inserting the following:

"or by some other officer or employee of the county, or of the county board of education, designated from time to time by the board of county commissioners with the approval of the county board of education,".

Sec. 2.  Subdivision (2) of G.S. 115A-30, as the same appears in the 1963 Cumulative Supplement to the 1960 Replacement Volume 3A of the General Statutes, is hereby amended by changing the period at the end of the second sentence to a colon and by adding the following:

"Provided, that in lieu of countersignature by the county officer or officers as provided by law, the board of county commissioners which appropriated the local public funds may from time to time, with the approval of the board of trustees of the institution, designate an employee of the institution to countersign the warrants, and the employee so designated shall countersign a warrant only if the funds required by such warrant are within the amount of funds remaining to the credit of the institution and are within the unencumbered balance of the appropriation for the item of expenditure according to the approved budgets of the institution."

Sec. 3.  All laws and clauses of laws in conflict with this Act are hereby repealed.

Sec. 4.  This Act shall be effective upon its ratification.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 11th day of May, 1965.