NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY
1961 SESSION

CHAPTER 386
HOUSE BILL 237

AN ACT TO AMEND CHAPTER 279 OF THE PUBLIC‑LOCAL LAWS OF 1937, AS AMENDED, FOR THE PURPOSE OF EXTENDING THE PROVISIONS OF SAME TO RECREATIONAL FACILITIES, ATHLETIC FIELDS AND STADIUMS OF PUBLIC SCHOOLS.

The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

Section 1. Section 3 of Chapter 279 of the Public‑Local Laws of 1937, as amended, is hereby further amended by changing the first sentence of said Section 3 to read as follows:
"Whenever the County Board of Education shall so petition, the Board of County Commissioners shall order a special election to be held in any such school district or in any such special bond tax unit for the purpose of voting upon the question of issuing bonds and/or notes and levying a sufficient tax for the payment thereof for the purpose of acquiring, erecting, enlarging, altering and equipping school buildings, including gymnasiums, agricultural buildings, shops, school cafeterias and other necessary buildings, and other school plant facilities, including athletic fields, stadiums and other school recreational facilities, whether or not adjacent to any school building or buildings, and purchasing sites in such district or unit, or for any one or more of said purposes."
Sec. 2. The foregoing amendment in Section 1 hereof shall apply only to Richmond County.
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 All laws and clauses of laws in conflict with this Act are hereby repealed.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 9th day of May, 1961.