NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1961 SESSION

CHAPTER 585

HOUSE BILL 749

AN ACT TO PROVIDE FOR THE ELECTION OF A TAX SUPERVISOR IN GRAHAM COUNTY.

The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

Section 1. There shall be elected in Graham County at the general election in 1962, and biennially thereafter, a county tax supervisor who shall take office at the same time as other county elected officers and who shall serve for a term of two (2) years and until his successor is duly elected and qualified. The tax supervisor shall be nominated and elected in the same manner as other elected county officers. The present tax supervisor or, in the event of a vacancy for any cause, his successor to be appointed by the Board of County Commissioners, shall continue to serve until the tax supervisor elected at the general election in 1962 shall qualify. In the event of a vacancy in the office of the tax supervisor elected under this Act, the vacancy shall be filled in the same manner as vacancies for other county officers are filled.

Sec. 2. The tax supervisor elected under this Act shall receive as compensation for his services in lieu of all other fees and commissions an annual salary of two thousand two hundred dollars ($2,200.00) to be paid in twelve (12) equal monthly installments. All commissions and fees as provided in Article 27, Chapter 105 of the General Statutes and in Section 105-424 of the General Statutes shall be paid into the general fund of the County.

Sec. 3. Subject to the provision in G. S. 105-287, as the same appears in the 1959 Cumulative Supplement, the tax supervisor elected under this Act shall have authority to employ competent persons as tax listers.

Sec. 4. All laws and clauses of laws in conflict with this Act are hereby repealed.

Sec. 5. 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 1st day of June, 1961.