NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1959 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 675

HOUSE BILL 920

 

 

AN ACT TO AUTHORIZE PITT COUNTY TO DEPOSIT PENALTIES AND INTEREST FROM DELINQUENT TAX COMMISSIONERS IN THE GENERAL FUND OF THE COUNTY.

 

WHEREAS, from time to time varying amounts of penalties and interest are collected by the tax collector of Pitt County, and

WHEREAS, it would entail complicated and numerous bookkeeping transactions to credit and deposit different percentages of these small amounts to the various funds for which they are levied; Now, therefore,

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

 

Section 1. The proceeds derived from the penalties and interest collected from delinquent taxpayers in Pitt County may be credited and deposited to the general fund of the county, and the auditor of Pitt County is hereby authorized, upon receipt of said interest and penalty proceeds, to credit and deposit them to the general fund of the county.

Sec. 2. This Act shall only apply to Pitt County.

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 All laws and clauses of laws in conflict with the provisions of this Act are hereby repealed.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 29th day of May, 1959.