NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1979 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 1116

HOUSE BILL 1629

 

 

AN ACT TO AMEND CHAPTER 346 OF THE 1973 SESSION LAWS TO REAFFIRM APPLICABILITY OF SAID CHAPTER TO THE TOWN OF TARBORO AND TO VALIDATE ACTION UNDER SAID ACT BY THE TOWN OF TARBORO AND THE REDEVELOPMENT COMMISSION OF THE TOWN OF TARBORO.

 

Whereas, Chapter 346 of the 1973 Session Laws was enacted to authorize the Redevelopment Commission of the Town of Chapel Hill to permit disposition of land for a special purpose at fair market value without competitive bidding; to permit disposition of land on the basis other than the highest monetary bid where such disposition is found to serve the best interest of the municipality, and to dispose of property at private sale; and

Whereas, Chapter 379 of the 1975 Session Laws was enacted to make said Chapter 346 of the 1973 Session Laws applicable to the Town of Tarboro; and

Whereas, Chapter 76 of the 1977 Session Laws amended Section 5 of Chapter 346 of the 1973 Session Laws to make said Chapter 346 applicable only to the Town of Chapel Hill and the City of Raleigh without making any reference to Chapter 379 of the 1975 Laws which made said 1973 Act applicable to the Town of Tarboro; and

Whereas, there was no intent to rescind the applicability of the 1973 Act to the Town of Tarboro and the Town of Tarboro and the Redevelopment Commission of the Town of Tarboro have taken action pursuant to the 1973 Act since the adoption of the amendment thereto in 1977; and

Whereas, it is the intention of this act to reaffirm the applicability of the 1973 Act to the Town of Tarboro and to validate all action taken pursuant thereto by the Town of Tarboro and the Redevelopment Commission of the Town of Tarboro since the enactment of said 1977 amendment; Now, therefore,

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

 

Section 1. Chapter 346, Session Laws of 1973, is hereby amended by rewriting Section 5 to read as follows:

"Sec. 5. This act shall apply only to the Town of Chapel Hill, the Town of Tarboro, and the City of Raleigh."

Sec. 2. That all action taken by the Redevelopment Commission of the Town of Tarboro and the Town of Tarboro pursuant to Chapter 346 of the 1973 Session Laws since the enactment of Chapter 76 of the 1977 Session Laws be and the same is hereby validated.

Sec. 3. This act is effective upon ratification.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 19th day of June, 1980.