NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1959 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 1079

HOUSE BILL 1128

 

 

AN ACT TO AMEND SECTION 130-128 OF THE GENERAL STATUTES OF NORTH CAROLINA RELATING TO THE POWERS OF SANITARY DISTRICTS.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

 

Section 1. G. S. 130-128 is hereby amended by striking out the period at the end of subdivision (13) of said Section, as the same appears on page 229 of the 1958 Replacement Volume 3B, inserting a colon in lieu thereof, and adding the following words:

"Provided that when a city, town or other municipal corporation or a portion thereof lies within the boundaries of a sanitary district or the area of an incorporated city, town or municipality overlaps a portion of the area of a sanitary district, and such city, town or municipality has and maintains an organized fire department, either paid or volunteer, and fire fighting apparatus, and equipment, such sanitary district may organize and establish a fire department and provide fire fighting equipment, apparatus and accessories in the district but outside the corporate limits of such cities, towns or municipalities, and levy ad valorem taxes in the area in the district but outside of the said municipalities for the establishment, maintenance and operation of such fire departments, and exclude the area of the district lying within the corporate limits of such cities, towns or municipalities from the levy of taxes therefor."

Sec. 1½. The provisions of this Act shall apply only to Dare County and to the municipalities and sanitary districts situate within said county.

Sec. 2. All laws and clauses of laws in conflict with this Act are hereby repealed.

Sec. 3. This Act shall be in full force and effect on and after its ratification.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 17th day of June, 1959.