NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1959 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 435

HOUSE BILL 533

 

 

AN ACT TO AMEND G. S. 160-66 RELATING TO TAX LEVIES FOR LIBRARIES IN POLK COUNTY.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

 

Section 1. G. S. 160-66, as the same appears in the 1957 Supplement to the General Statutes is amended by adding at the end thereof the following.

"In Polk County the Board of County Commissioners may submit to the voters of said county at a special election or at any election the question of whether or not a special tax shall be levied for the support of a library within the meaning of Article 8 of Chapter 160 of the General Statutes, 1957 Supplement. Said election may be called without the necessity of a petition signed by the voters of Polk County equal in number to at least fifteen per cent (15%) of the total number of votes cast for the office of Governor in the last preceding election of said county."

Sec. 2. All laws and clauses of laws in conflict with this Act are hereby repealed.

Sec. 3. 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 5th day of May, 1959.