NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1963 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 918

HOUSE BILL 882

 

 

AN ACT TO VALIDATE THE CREATION OF WATERSHED DISTRICTS AND TO AMEND G.S. 139-18 CONCERNING THE RECORDATION OF THE DISTRICT ORGANIZATION ORDER.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

 

Section 1.  Article 2 of Chapter 139 of the General Statutes is amended by adding a new Section, to be designated G.S. 139-20.1, to read as follows:

"§ 139-20.1.  All actions had and taken prior to March 1, 1963, by supervisors of soil conservation districts, boards of county commissioners, boards of election, registrars, or other officials in the course of attempting to form and create watershed improvement districts, are hereby ratified, approved, validated and confirmed, as if accomplished in full and complete compliance with the law, and any watershed improvement district with respect to which formation may have been attempted and completed prior to March 1, 1963, is hereby declared to be lawfully formed, created, and in all respects constituted a legal and valid watershed improvement district."

Sec. 2.  The third sentence of subsection (m) of G.S. 139-18 is amended to read as follows:

"Any order of approval shall declare the district to be duly organized; shall specifically define the boundaries of the district, and shall be certified by the supervisors together with a certified copy of the petition for establishment of the district, to the State Soil and Water Conservation Committee, the State Board and the Clerk of the Superior Court of the county or counties wherein any part of the district lies for recordation in the special proceedings docket."

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  All laws and clauses of laws in conflict with this Act are hereby repealed.

Sec. 4.  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 13th day of June, 1963.