NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1961 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 9

HOUSE BILL 18

 

 

AN ACT TO VALIDATE ACTS DONE AND PROCEEDINGS TAKEN TO AUTHORIZE THE ISSUANCE OF BONDS OF CRAVEN COUNTY TO FINANCE THE ERECTION AND EQUIPMENT OF BUILDINGS FOR A PUBLIC HOSPITAL AND THE LEVY OF A SPECIAL ANNUAL TAX FOR THE OPERATION AND MAINTENANCE OF SUCH HOSPITAL.

 

WHEREAS, the qualified electors of the County of Craven, at a special election held in said County on the 28th day of November, 1959, approved the contracting of debt in the amount of one million dollars ($1,000,000) by the issuance of bonds of the County to finance the cost of erecting and equipping a new building or buildings to be used by said County as a public hospital and of acquiring a suitable site therefor, and also the levy of a special tax of not exceeding fifteen cents (15¢) annually upon each one hundred dollars ($100.00) of assessed valuation of taxable property in the County to finance the cost of operating, equipping and maintaining a public hospital, and, although notice of said special election was published once in each of three successive weeks in The Sun-Journal, a newspaper published within said County, the notice so published did not comply in certain respects with the requirements of law and it is desirable that the acts done and proceedings taken in and about the calling and holding of said election and the authorization of such bonds shall be validated: Now, therefore,

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

 

Section 1. The acts done and proceedings taken by the Board of Commissioners of the County of Craven, or by other officers of said County, in relation to the issuance of bonds of said County of an aggregate principal amount not exceeding one million dollars ($1,000,000), to finance the cost of erecting and equipping a new building or buildings to be used by said County as a public hospital and of acquiring a suitable site therefor, including the bond order providing for the issuance of said bonds adopted by said board of commissioners on the 5th day of October, 1959, and the acts done and proceedings taken for the purpose of submitting to the qualified voters of said County at a special election held in said County on the 28th day of November, 1959, the question whether said bond order and the indebtedness to be incurred in issuing said bonds and the levy annually of a tax sufficient to pay said bonds and the interest thereon, authorized thereby, and also the question whether the levy of a special tax of not exceeding fifteen cents (15¢) annually upon each one hundred dollars ($100.00) of assessed valuation of taxable property to finance the cost of operating, equipping and maintaining a public hospital, should be approved or disapproved, are hereby legalized and validated, notwithstanding any defects or irregularities in such acts or proceedings, and notwithstanding that notice of such election was not given in the manner or for the period of time prescribed by law.

Sec. 2. The County of Craven shall have power to issue the bonds authorized by said bond order in the manner and subject to the conditions and limitations prescribed by law for the issuance of bonds authorized by any bond order adopted pursuant to the County Finance Act, as amended, and when said bonds shall have been issued pursuant to said bond order and in accordance with such law they shall constitute valid and binding obligations of said County.

Sec. 3. All laws and clauses of laws in conflict with this Act are hereby repealed.

Sec. 4. This Act shall be full force and effect from and after its ratification.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 24th day of February, 1961.