NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1979 SESSION

CHAPTER 727

HOUSE BILL 1303

AN ACT TO AMEND CHAPTER 780 OF THE 1971 SESSION LAWS, AS AMENDED, IN ORDER TO MAKE TECHNICAL AMENDMENTS TO SUBCHAPTER IV OF G.S. CHAPTER 159, CONCERNING AIRPORT DISTRICTS.

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

Section 1.  Each time Chapter 159 of the General Statutes is amended in this act, the amendment is to Chapter 159 as enacted by Section 1 of Chapter 780 of the 1971 Session Laws, and as G.S. Chapter 159 appears in Chapter 780, as amended and supplemented.

Sec. 2.  G.S. 159-44 is amended by rewriting subdivision (4) to read as follows:

"(4)      'Unit,' 'unit of local government,' or 'local government' means counties; cities, towns, and incorporated villages; sanitary districts; mosquito control districts; hospital districts; metropolitan sewerage districts; metropolitan water districts; county water and sewer districts; and special airport districts."

Sec. 3.  G.S. 159-48 is amended by rewriting subsection (e) to read as follows:

"(e)       Each sanitary district, mosquito control district, hospital district, metropolitan sewerage district, metropolitan water district, county water and sewer district and special airport district is authorized to borrow money and issue its bonds under this Article in evidence thereof for the purpose of paying any capital costs of any one or more of the purposes for which it is authorized, by general laws uniformly applicable throughout the State, to raise or appropriate money, except for current expenses."

Sec. 4.  G.S. 159-81 is amended by rewriting paragraph (1) as follows:

"(1)      'Municipality' means a county, city, town, incorporated village, sanitary district, metropolitan sewerage district, metropolitan water district, county water and sewer district, water and sewer authority, hospital authority, hospital district, parking authority, special airport district, and airport authority but not any other forms of local government."

Sec. 5.  G.S. 159-97 is amended by inserting the following new subsection (i):

"(i)        For the purposes of this section the terms county or city shall include a special airport district with respect to financing of aeronautical facilities."

Sec. 6.  This act is effective upon ratification.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 31st day of May, 1979.