NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1971 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 992

HOUSE BILL 1431

 

AN ACT TO AUTHORIZE THE CREATION OF THE RALEIGH CIVIC CENTER AUTHORITY AND TO AUTHORIZE THE ISSUANCE OF BONDS FOR A CIVIC CENTER.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

 

Section 1. The City Council of the City of Raleigh is hereby authorized to:

(a)       establish a Raleigh Civic Center Authority, a public agency, which shall consist of five members to be appointed by the City Council and to exercise the powers conferred by this act or by General Statutes to municipal corporations relating to construction, maintenance, operation or financing of civic and convention centers; or

(b)       The City Council itself is hereby authorized to exercise the powers granted by this act or the General Statutes of North Carolina relating to construction, maintenance, operation or financing of civic and convention centers; or

(c)       The City Council of the City of Raleigh is authorized to establish and create an advisory Raleigh Civic Center Authority with such powers and duties as the Council may specify.

Sec. 2. The City Council of the City of Raleigh or an authority established pursuant to this act shall have the power and duty to acquire, construct, establish, operate or maintain a public civic center with the related and allied facilities to service the civic or sports entertainment needs of the area and for such purposes the following powers are granted:

(a)       to acquire and dispose of real and personal property;

(b)       to enter into leases and contracts for the construction, maintenance and operation of the civic center and for services, materials, furnishings, equipment and all matters necessary for the location, design, construction, equipping and operation of the center;

(c)       to receive and accept aid or contributions from the State, Federal or local agencies, or from any other source of either money, property or labor to be held, used and applied for the purposes for which they were made;

(d)       to employ such personnel as may be necessary for the proper implementation of the purposes and duties of the authority or operation of the center;

(e)       to adopt rules, by-laws and regulations for the management of the civic center; and

(f)        to sue and be sued and do all things necessary to carry out the purposes of this act;

(g)       to grant leases, licenses and concessions for the use of all or any portion of a convention center.

Sec. 3. The City of Raleigh is hereby authorized to issue revenue bonds or general obligation bonds in accordance with the provisions of the Municipal Finance Act or the Local Government Finance Act for the acquisition, construction, equipping, furnishing and improving or extending the civic center.

Sec. 4. The City Council of the City of Raleigh is hereby authorized in its discretion and without any petition therefor to cause an election to be held in the city at such time as the Council may determine on the question as to whether a special tax shall be levied on all taxable property in the City of Raleigh, for the purposes of purchasing all necessary land and for the construction, equipping and furnishing of the Raleigh Civic Center.  The election shall be held by the County Board of Elections to be held and conducted in accordance with the laws governing the election of city officers insofar as applicable. The ballot shall afford the voters an opportunity to vote for or against the tax.  If a majority of those voting favor the tax then the City Council is authorized to levy and collect the tax in such a manner as it may deem necessary and shall appropriate the funds collected for the Raleigh Civic Center.

Sec. 5. This act shall become effective upon its ratification.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 20th day of July, 1971.