NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1961 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 1086

SENATE BILL 497

 

 

AN ACT TO PROVIDE FOR THE ESTABLISHMENT OF A LAW LIBRARY IN PENDER COUNTY.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

 

Section 1. The Clerk of the Superior Court of the County of Pender, the President of the Pender County Bar Association, and their successors in office, be, and they are hereby, constituted the custodians of all books, supplies, equipment and furniture of the law library which shall be kept and maintained for the Superior Court of Pender County and the use of the officials of Pender County and all courts held therein.

Sec. 2. All books, equipment, supplies, and furniture of said library shall be the property of the County of Pender and the said county is authorized and empowered to hold said property and to add thereto from time to time by gift, donation, purchase or otherwise, such books, records, equipment and furniture as may be deemed reasonably necessary and proper for the use of said officials and courts.

Sec. 3. The Clerk of the Superior Court of the County of Pender shall be, and he is hereby, directed to act as librarian of said library, without compensation. It shall be the duty of said librarian to keep said library room open during such hours as may be fixed by the custodians hereinbefore provided for, and shall obey all rules and regulations which may be prescribed toy the government and management of said library.

Sec. 4. In order to provide a fund for the extension, maintenance and support of the said library, the sum of fifty cents (50¢) shall be taxed as cost and collected by the Clerk of the Superior Court of the County of Pender in each and every civil and criminal case tried and disposed of in said court after the effective date of this Act, and said funds shall be deposited by the Clerk of the Superior Court of the County of Pender in a bank designated for that purpose, and shall be used solely for the purpose of the extension, maintenance and operation of said library.

Sec. 5. From the funds so collected from time to time, as provided in Section 4 of this Act, it shall be the duty of the Clerk of the Superior Court of the County of Pender to purchase and pay for such volumes and sets of books as shall be recommended and agreed upon from time to time by the custodians and a committee to be appointed by the President of the Pender County Bar Association and his successors in office. All checks on said account shall be drawn and signed by the Clerk of the Superior Court of the County of Pender, and it shall be the duty of the said clerk to keep a correct account of all receipts and disbursements in connection with said library fund.

Sec. 6. All laws and clauses of laws in conflict with this Act are hereby repealed.

Sec. 7. 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 21st day of June, 1961.