NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1969 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 590

HOUSE BILL 921

 

AN ACT AUTHORIZING THE MORGANTON CITY SCHOOLS TO SELL AT PRIVATE SALE CERTAIN REAL PROPERTY TO BURKE COUNTY.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

 

Section 1.  Notwithstanding the provisions of G.S. 115-126, the Morganton City Board of Education, or its successor in title upon the merging of the Morganton City Board of Education into the Burke County Board of Education, is hereby authorized in its discretion to sell or exchange the central school property in Morganton to Burke County, without a public sale.  Before such exchange or sale shall be consummated, the central school property and any property which might be exchanged therefor shall be appraised by three disinterested and competent appraisers.  The report of the appraisers shall be made in writing and a copy filed with the Morganton City Board of Education or its successor in title and the County Commissioners of Burke County and recorded on the minutes of each of said boards, or their successors.

Sec. 2. The terms and conditions of any sale, or exchange of the property or the properties as aforesaid, shall be in the discretion of the Morganton City Board of Education, or its successor in title and the Board of County Commissioners of Burke County and said Boards may exchange or sell and purchase said property at private sale at any time within two (2) years after the ratification of this Act.

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 All laws and clauses of laws in conflict with the provisions of this Act are hereby repealed.

Sec. 4. 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 26th day of May, 1969.