NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1977 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 214

SENATE BILL 342

 

 

AN ACT RELATING TO THE TAX RECORDS OF BUNCOMBE COUNTY AND THE CITY OF ASHEVILLE.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

 

Section 1.  In order to clarify and make more definite the tax records for the County of Buncombe and the City of Asheville, those certain cumulative records of uncollected real estate taxes for the years 1944 through 1975 and designated as "Condensed Tax Scroll for the Years 1944 through 1975" shall, upon adoption by resolution by the Board of Tax Supervision for Buncombe County, North Carolina, be declared the official scroll books or records of unpaid real estate taxes due the County of Buncombe and the City of Asheville for the years 1944 through 1975 and unpaid personal property taxes for the years 1951 through 1975 and shall be substituted in all respects for the old scroll books for said years.

Sec. 2. All real estate taxes due the City of Asheville and the County of Buncombe or the Board of Tax Supervision for Buncombe County for the years 1944 through 1950 and all real estate and personal property taxes due for the years 1951 through 1975 which do not appear as unpaid or assigned on said Condensed Tax Scrolls, except for deferred taxes as provided for under the provisions of G.S. 105-277.4(c), as amended, shall upon the adoption of said scrolls by the Buncombe County Board of Tax Supervision, be conclusively presumed to have been paid and the tax collector for the Board of Tax Supervision for Buncombe County shall not be responsible for the omission from said tax scrolls for any unpaid real estate taxes for the years 1944 through 1950 and any real estate and personal property taxes for the years 1951 through 1975.

Sec. 3. All laws and clauses of laws in conflict with the provisions of this act are hereby repealed.

Sec. 4. This act shall become effective upon ratification.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 15th day of April, 1977.