NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY
1959 SESSION

CHAPTER 815
HOUSE BILL 993

AN ACT TO AUTHORIZE APPROPRIATIONS BY THE BOARDS OF COMMISSIONERS OR TOWN COUNCILS OF THE MUNICIPALITIES IN BERTIE COUNTY FOR INDUSTRIAL DEVELOPMENT AND OTHER PURPOSES.

The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

Section 1. The Board of Commissioners or Town Council of every incorporated town or municipality in Bertie County is hereby authorized and empowered to appropriate and set apart annually a fund in such amount as each of said boards or councils shall in its discretion determine annually to be desirable and necessary to carry out the provisions and purposes of this Act up to and including the sum of one thousand dollars ($1,000.00) annually for each said incorporated town or municipality.
Sec. 2. The said Board of Commissioners or Town Council of each of the incorporated towns or municipalities in Bertie County is hereby authorized and empowered to appropriate annually and set apart said fund as authorized in Section 1 hereof, in its discretion, from any surplus funds and from source or sources of revenue coming into its hand other than funds derived from taxation, and to accumulate any unexpended funds.
Sec. 3. The said fund for each of said incorporated towns or municipalities, when made available and appropriated annually as authorized by this Act, shall be used and expended by the said Board of Commissioners or Town Council of such incorporated town or municipality in its discretion, for the purpose of obtaining or aiding and encouraging the locating in or near said town or municipality wherein the appropriation is made or in Bertie County of manufacturing, industrial, business and commercial plants and enterprises, the agricultural development of Bertie County, the advertising of the suitability of said town and county and the advantages it has to offer in connection with the foregoing and for such other purposes as will in the opinion of said Board of Commissioners or Town Council increase the population, taxable property values, and the general and material welfare of said town and county and the people thereof. It is hereby found and declared that the annual setting apart and the raising and providing for the fund as herein set forth and the expenditure thereof as herein authorized by the Board of Commissioners or Town Council of any one or more of the incorporated towns or municipalities in Bertie County for the purposes aforesaid constitute and are for a lawful public purpose and that said expenditures are and shall be in the public interest and shall promote the general welfare.
Sec. 4. If any provision of this Act shall be declared unconstitutional or invalid, such invalidity shall not affect other provisions or application of the Act which can be given effect without the invalid provisions and to this end the provisions of this Act are declared to be severable.
Sec. 5. All laws and clauses of laws in conflict with this Act are hereby repealed.
Sec. 6. 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 9th day of June, 1959.