NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1961 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 820

HOUSE BILL 965

 

 

AN ACT AMENDING CHAPTER 924, SESSION LAWS OF 1949, BY AUTHORIZING AND EMPOWERING THE GOVERNING BODY OF THE CITY OF DURHAM TO CONSTRUCT LOCAL IMPROVEMENTS ON THE PUBLIC STREETS AND ALLEYS AND SPECIALLY ASSESSING THE COST OR A PORTION OF THE COST THEREOF AGAINST ABUTTING PROPERTY.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

 

Section 1. Chapter 924, Session Laws of 1949, is hereby amended by inserting in line 10 of Section 1 thereof after the words "public streets" and before the words "and alleys" the word "sidewalks" followed by a comma.

Sec. 2. Chapter 924, Session Laws of 1949, is further amended by inserting a new sentence after the first sentence in Section 1 and immediately before the second sentence of said Section the following words:

"Said governing body of the City of Durham is hereby further authorized and empowered without the necessity of having a petition filed with it, to open, clear, grade, construct drainage and otherwise improve streets, avenues, and alleys which have been dedicated to public use by making and recording in the office of the register of deeds of a map or plat designating such streets, avenues or alleys thereon, and to specially assess the entire cost of such opening, clearing, grading, construction of drainage and other improvements to such streets, avenues or alleys against the property abutting upon such streets, avenues or alleys so opened and improved."

Sec. 3. All laws and clauses of laws in conflict with this Act are hereby repealed.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 14th day of June, 1961.