NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY
1967 SESSION

CHAPTER 93
HOUSE BILL 230 

AN ACT TO VALIDATE TAX LEVIES AND TAX SALES IN BERTIE COUNTY.

The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

Section 1. All acts and things done by or under the direction of the Board of Commissioners of Bertie County in listing property for taxes and in levying taxes for the years 1965 and 1966 are hereby in all respects ratified and validated.
Sec. 2. The advertisements and sales of lands for failure to pay taxes to Bertie County and all acts and things done by the Board of County Commissioners of Bertie County or by the Tax Collector of Bertie County or by the Deputy Tax Collector of Bertie County or by the Acting Tax Collector of Bertie County relating to the advertisement and sales of lands for failure to pay taxes to Bertie County for the years 1964 and 1965 are hereby in all respects ratified and validated.
Sec. 3. All acts and things done by or under the direction of Elizabeth W. Cooper, Deputy Bertie County Tax Collector, during the illness and hospitalization of Lacy M. Early, late Bertie County Tax Collector, who died on October 25, 1966, and all acts and things done by or under the direction of Joe S. Warlick, Acting Bertie County Tax Collector, from the death of Lacy M. Early, late Bertie County Tax Collector, on October 25, 1966, until the newly appointed Bertie County Tax Collector entered upon the duties of that office on January 3, 1967, are hereby in all respects ratified and validated.
Sec. 4. This Act shall not affect pending litigation.
Sec. 5. If any provisions of this Act shall be declared unconstitutional or invalid, such invalidity shall not affect other provisions or application of the Act which can be given effect without the invalid provisions and to this end the provisions of this Act are declared to be severable.
Sec. 6. All laws and clauses of laws in conflict with this Act are hereby repealed.
Sec. 7. 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 24th day of March, 1967.