Title: S.L. 1959-40

NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY
1959 SESSION

CHAPTER 40
SENATE BILL 36

AN ACT TO AMEND CHAPTER 157 OF THE GENERAL STATUTES OF NORTH CAROLINA, REFERRED TO AS "THE HOUSING AUTHORITIES LAW", BY PROVIDING THAT SAID CHAPTER 157 OF THE GENERAL STATUTES, KNOWN AS "THE HOUSING AUTHORITIES LAW", SHALL APPLY TO ALL CITIES AND TOWNS IN CHEROKEE, CLAY, GRAHAM, MACON AND SWAIN COUNTIES HAVING A POPULATION OF FIVE HUNDRED OR MORE INHABITANTS.

The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

Section 1. Amend Sec. 157‑60 of the General Statutes of North Carolina by adding at the end of said Section a proviso, which said proviso shall read as follows:
"Provided, that all the provisions of this Chapter, as amended, and the various Articles thereof, as amended, shall be in force and effect and applicable to any city or town in Cherokee, Clay, Graham, Macon and Swain Counties having a population of more than five hundred (500) inhabitants (according to the last Federal Census or any revision or amendment thereto) which is, or is about to be, included in the territorial boundaries of an authority when created hereunder."
Sec. 2. The provisions of this Act shall apply only to Cherokee, Clay, Graham, Macon and Swain Counties and the cities and towns located in said counties.
Sec. 3. All laws and clauses of laws in conflict with the provisions of this Act are hereby repealed.
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 6th day of March, 1959.