GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA

1987 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 917

HOUSE BILL 2298

 

AN ACT TO AUTHORIZE THE COUNTY OF JONES TO ADOPT AN OFFICIAL FLAG.

 

Whereas, the Jones County Council of Extension Homemakers has put its creativity and money together and designed a flag to be used as the official flag of the County of Jones; and

Whereas, the flag is in the shape of Jones County and depicts the county seal of the Millpond scene encircled by the symbolic tobacco leaf and pine cone; and

Whereas, the Board of County Commissioners at its regular meeting on March 7, 1987, unanimously adopted a resolution asking the General Assembly to grant the Board of County Commissioners the power to adopt this flag as the official county flag; Now, therefore,

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

 

Section 1.  The Board of County Commissioners of the County of Jones may adopt the flag created by the Jones County Council of Extension Homemakers which is in the shape of the county and depicts the county seal of the Millpond scene encircled by the symbolic tobacco leaf and pine cone as the official flag of the County of Jones.

Sec. 2.  This act is effective upon ratification.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified this the 23rd day of June, 1988.