NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1967 SESSION

CHAPTER 781

HOUSE BILL 888

AN ACT TO AMEND CHAPTER 168 OF PUBLIC-LOCAL LAWS 1939, AS AMENDED RELATING TO THE RALEIGH-DURHAM AIRPORT.

The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

Section 1. That Chapter 168 of the Public-Local Laws of 1939, as amended by Chapter 292 of Public-Local Laws of 1941, as amended by Chapter 79 of Session Laws of 1945, as amended by Chapter 1096 of Session Laws of 1955, as amended by Chapter 455 of Session Laws of 1957, as amended by Chapter 755 of Session Laws of 1959, is hereby amended in the following particulars:

A.        By adding the following two paragraphs at the end of Section 3:

"Said cities and counties shall each hold and be vested with an undivided interest in and to lands so acquired, owned, controlled and occupied in proportion to the respective payments made by the several cities and counties to the acquisition and improvement of said lands and to the maintenance of the said Airport established thereon.

"The County of Wake, the City of Raleigh, the County of Durham, and the City of Durham, with the approval of the Raleigh-Durham Airport Authority, are authorized to convey to the State of North Carolina, or to any public board, municipality or authority, by deed or other instrument, upon such terms and conditions as may be agreed upon, without the necessity of complying with the provisions of G. S. 160-59, any real properties vested in the said counties and cities and comprising a part of lands held for airport purposes, in exchange for a conveyance of lands vested in the State of North Carolina or in any other public board, municipality or authority."

B.        By adding at the end of Section 4 the following:

"For the purpose of aiding the Raleigh-Durham Airport Authority in the financing of improvements at the Raleigh-Durham Airport, the County of Wake and the County of Durham are each hereby authorized to issue bonds, under and pursuant to The County Finance Act, for airport purposes as provided in Section 153-77 of said Act the same as if such bonds were to be issued to finance improvements at an airport owned and operated by such County, and notwithstanding that the Raleigh-Durham Airport is located outside the corporate limits of the County of Durham. The proceeds of the sale of any such bonds may be expended by the County issuing such bonds or by the Raleigh-Durham Airport Authority, as may be determined by the Board of Commissioners of the County issuing such bonds."

C.        By changing the period after the word "board" at the end of the second paragraph of Section 6 to a semicolon and adding the following:

"provided, however, that the representation of a municipality on said Board shall not be changed or affected in the event either the County of Wake or the County of Durham, or both, issue bonds for the purpose of aiding the Raleigh-Durham Airport Authority in the financing of improvements at the Raleigh-Durham Airport."

Sec. 2. The provisions of this Act are severable, and if any of its provisions shall be held unconstitutional by any court of competent jurisdiction, the decision of such court shall not affect or impair any of the remaining provisions.

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

Sec. 4. That this Act shall be in full force and effect from and after it ratification.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 14th day of June, 1967.