NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1961 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 405

HOUSE BILL 520

 

 

AN ACT TO AMEND CHAPTER 186 OF THE PRIVATE LAWS OF 1909 RELATING TO THE CHARTER OF THE TOWN OF EDENTON SO AS TO GRANT TO THE TOWN CERTAIN POWERS WITH RESPECT TO PROPERTY ACQUIRED FROM THE UNITED STATES.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

 

Section 1. Chapter 186 of the Private Laws of 1909 is hereby amended by adding a new Section immediately following Section 34 thereof, to be designated as Section 34½, and to read as follows:

"Sec. 34½. The governing body of the Town of Edenton, in addition to all other powers granted by any other provisions of law, is hereby granted the following powers with respect to that property known as the Naval Air Station, Edenton, compromising some eight hundred seven (807) acres of land with the buildings, facilities and other improvements thereon, which said town has acquired from the United States:

"(1)      To provide police protection for such above described property and to appoint police officers in order to furnish such police protection; and to this end police officers appointed by the governing body of the Town of Edenton shall have the same authority as peace officers on such property as they now have within the corporate limits of the Town of Edenton;

"(2)      To provide fire protection; and all firemen while on such property, or going to and from such property to the Town of Edenton, shall be subject to the same laws, rules and regulations and shall have the same privileges granted and rights as if such duties were being performed within the corporate limits of the Town of Edenton;

"(3)      To adopt ordinances and resolutions and to exercise all the powers with respect to such above described property which the governing body now has with respect to territory within the corporate limits.

"The lease therein mentioned having been terminated, Section 34½ of Chapter 186 of the Private Laws of 1909, as added by Chapter 477 of the Session Laws of 1947, is hereby repealed and this Act is substituted therefor."

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 All laws and clauses of laws in conflict with this Act are hereby repealed.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 9th day of May, 1961.