NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1959 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 480

SENATE BILL 236

 

 

AN ACT TO AMEND G, S. 115-116 AND G. S. 115-119 RELATING TO SPECIAL TAX ELECTIONS FOR SCHOOL PURPOSES IN LINCOLN COUNTY.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

 

Section 1. Subsection (g) of G. S. 115-116, as the same appears in the 1957 Cumulative Supplement to Volume 3A of the General Statutes, is hereby amended by adding at the end thereof the following: "Provided that in Lincoln County elections may be called for an entire county on the question of a special tax to supplement the current expense funds from State and county allotments and thereby operate schools of a higher standard by supplementing any item of expenditure in the school budget, if the boards of education of all administrative units within the county petition for such an election. In such event, the supplemental tax shall be apportioned among the administrative units of the county on a per capita enrollment basis which shall be determined by the State Board of Education and certified to each administrative unit involved."

Sec. 2. Subsection (5) of G. S. 115-119, as the same appears in the 1957 Cumulative Supplement to Volume 3A of the General Statutes, is hereby amended by adding at the end thereof the following: "Provided that in Lincoln County if the petitions are for an election for a county-wide supplemental tax to be apportioned among administrative units within the county, unless the petitions expressly state to the contrary, the outcome of the county-wide election shall not affect or repeal any local taxes heretofore or hereafter voted in the separate administrative units."

Sec. 3. All laws and clauses of laws in conflict with this Act are hereby repealed.

Sec. 4. This Act shall become effective upon its ratification.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 12th day of May, 1959.