NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1965 SESSION

CHAPTER 501

HOUSE BILL 648

AN ACT TO AMEND CHAPTER 268 OF THE SESSION LAWS OF 1961 RELATING TO THE BRUNSWICK COUNTY RESOURCES DEVELOPMENT TAX.

The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

Section 1. Section 9 of Chapter 268 of the Session Laws of 1961 is hereby repealed.

Sec. 2. Chapter 268 of the Session Laws of 1961 is hereby amended by adding a new Section immediately following Section 11, to be designated as Section 11 1/2, and to read as follows:

"Sec. 11 1/2. Whenever the levy of a tax as herein provided for shall have been approved at an election as herein provided for, a subsequent election on the same question shall thereafter be held under the same provisions governing the original election provided a petition for such special election is presented therefor in the same manner and subject to the same conditions as the petition herein provided for with respect to the original election. If at such election, a majority of those voting therein vote against the continuance of the tax, the board of county commissioners shall cease to levy the tax herein provided for, and the Resources Development Commission for Brunswick County shall thereupon be abolished."

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 All laws and clauses of laws in conflict with this Act are hereby repealed.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 upon its ratification.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 11th day of May, 1965.