NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY
1967 SESSION

CHAPTER 879
HOUSE BILL 1145

AN ACT TO AMEND G.S. 153-9 BY ADDING THERETO A NEW SUBSECTION TO AUTHORIZE BOARDS OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS TO LEVY A SPECIAL TAX FOR THE SPECIAL PURPOSE OF ACQUIRING, CONSTRUCTING, RENOVATING AND FURNISHING COURTHOUSES AND JAILS.

The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

Section 1.  G.S. 153-9, as amended, is hereby further amended by adding thereto a new subsection to be numbered (8a) and to read as follows:
"The board of county commissioners of any county is hereby authorized, in its discretion, to levy annually on all taxable property in the county a special tax for the special purpose of acquiring, constructing, renovating, equipping and furnishing courthouses and jails together with the land to be designated as a site or sites therefor, and the General Assembly does hereby give special approval for the levy of such tax, and the authority granted in this subdivision is in addition to and not in substitution for existing powers of boards of county commissioners, whether such existing powers be granted by general or special Act."
Sec. 2.  All laws and clauses of laws in conflict with this Act are hereby repealed.
Sec. 3.  This Act shall become effective upon its ratification.
In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 21st day of June, 1967.