GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA

1983 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 796

HOUSE BILL 459

 

AN ACT EXEMPTING THE COUNTY OF GASTON FROM THE PROVISIONS OF ARTICLE 12, CHAPTER 160A OF THE GENERAL STATUTES, AS TO LEASES OF REAL ESTATE OWNED BY IT KNOWN AS GASTON MEMORIAL HOSPITAL PROPERTY AND THE SALE OF PERSONAL PROPERTY USED FOR THE HOSPITAL.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

 

Section 1.  The Board of County Commissioners of Gaston County is hereby authorized and empowered to lease, in a privately negotiated transaction, to Gaston Memorial Hospital, Inc., a private nonprofit corporation organized under Chapter 55A of the North Carolina General Statutes, for a term greater than 10 years, but not more than 25 years, the real property known as Gaston Memorial Hospital located on Hospital Drive in Gastonia, North Carolina.  As a condition of the lease, Gaston Memorial Hospital, Inc., and any successor corporation or assignee shall amend its charter and bylaws as necessary so that the Gaston County Board of County Commissioners shall appoint its board of directors.

Sec. 2.  The Board of County Commissioners of Gaston County is hereby authorized and empowered to sell, in a privately negotiated sale to Gaston Memorial Hospital, Inc., a private nonprofit corporation organized under Chapter 55A of the General Statutes, the hospital equipment owned by Gaston County.

Sec. 3.  Gaston County is exempted from all provisions of Article 12, Chapter 160A of the General Statutes in conflict with the provisions of this act.

Sec. 4.  Sections 1 and 3 of this act are effective upon ratification.  Section 2 of this act shall become effective July 1, 1984.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 18th day of July, 1983.