NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1961 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 718

SENATE BILL 222

 

 

AN ACT TO AMEND CHAPTER 279, PUBLIC-LOCAL LAWS OF 1937, RELATING TO THE CREATION OF SCHOOL DISTRICTS, THE ISSUANCE OF SCHOOL BUILDING BONDS AND NOTES IN BEHALF OF SCHOOL DISTRICTS AND SPECIAL TAX BOND UNITS AND THE LEVY OF TAXES WITHIN SUCH DISTRICTS AND UNITS FOR THE PAYMENT OF THE PRINCIPAL AND INTEREST OF SUCH BONDS AND NOTES, BY MAKING ADDITIONAL PROVISIONS FOR THE ISSUANCE OF SCHOOL BUILDING BONDS AND EXTENDING THE APPLICATION OF SAID ACT TO ROBESON COUNTY.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

 

Section 1. Said Chapter 279 of the Public-Local Laws of 1937 is hereby amended by adding a Section thereto to be numbered 8-C and to be as follows:

"Sec. 8-C. If a majority of the qualified voters of any school district created as authorized by this Act who shall vote on the question of the issuance of bonds and the levy of a tax for the payment thereof shall not vote in favor thereof, a petition, signed by not less than ten per centum (10%) of the qualified voters of such school district, may again after six months thereafter be presented to the County Board of Education of the county in which such school district is located representing that the issuance of bonds on behalf of such school district is necessary for any one or more of the purposes provided in this Act, and the County Board of Education upon receipt of such petition may petition the Board of County Commissioners to order a special election to be held in such school district for the purpose of voting upon the question of issuing bonds for the purpose or purposes set forth in such petition to the County Board of Education and levying a sufficient tax for the payment thereof. The other provisions of this Act relating to the calling and holding of an election, to the giving of notice, to the making, canvassing and certifying of the returns of such election, to the statement of the results of the election, to the issuing of bonds, and to the levying of taxes to pay the principal of and the interest on such bonds shall be followed and shall apply to the issuance of such bonds."

Sec. 2. Said Chapter 279 of the Public-Local Laws of 1937 is hereby further amended by striking out the period at the end of Section 11 and adding the following: "and Robeson County."

Sec. 3. The powers conferred by this Act shall be regarded as supplemental and in addition to powers conferred by other laws and shall not supplant or repeal any existing powers for the issuance of bonds, or any provisions of law for the payment of bonds issued under such powers, or for the custody of moneys provided for such payment.

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, 1961.