NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1965 SESSION

CHAPTER 226

SENATE BILL 145

AN ACT TO AMEND CHAPTER 759, SESSION LAWS OF 1963, ENTITLED "AN ACT TO AUTHORIZE THE BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS OF CARTERET COUNTY TO MAKE APPROPRIATIONS FOR INDUSTRIAL DEVELOPMENT PURPOSES AND TO CREATE AND FIX THE POWERS OF AN INDUSTRIAL DEVELOPMENT COMMISSION FOR CARTERET COUNTY."

The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

Section 1. Section 1, Chapter 759, Session Laws of 1963, is hereby amended by adding an additional sentence at the end of said Section 1 to read as follows: "In connection with its effort to carry out the purposes for which it is created, The Industrial Development Commission, created pursuant to this Act, shall have power: (a) to acquire by purchase, devise, gift or otherwise, and to own, hold, convey, transfer, sell, lease to or from any person, firm or corporation, and to grant or take options to lease or purchase all kinds of property, real, personal and mixed; (b) to enter into contracts and to invite and to make proposals with respect to property owned or controlled by it; (c) to own and operate motor vehicles of all types including boats, barges, ships and aircraft; and (d) to engage in necessary travel and to provide reasonable entertainment for representatives of industries interested in Carteret County as a prospective location of a manufacturing, commercial, distribution or other facility which is reasonably calculated to provide employment to the people of Carteret County and its trade area.

Sec. 2. Section 2, Chapter 759, Session Laws of 1963, is hereby amended by striking the following sentence, beginning in line 8: "In making said appointments, the Board of Commissioners shall maintain an equal balance insofar as political party affiliation is concerned."

Sec. 3. Section 2, Chapter 759, Session Laws of 1963, is further amended by adding a "period" after the word "involved" in line 14 and by striking the following words: "and with the same political affiliation as his predecessor."

Sec. 4. Section 3, Chapter 759, Session Laws of 1963, is amended by striking out, beginning in line 7 thereof, the following sentence: "The appointments shall be made so as to maintain at all times an equal balance of membership insofar as political party affiliation is concerned."

Sec. 5. All laws and clauses of laws in conflict with this Act are hereby repealed.

Sec. 6. 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 13th day of April, 1965.