NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1959 SESSION

CHAPTER 864

HOUSE BILL 711

AN ACT RELATING TO THE AMASSING OF FUNDS WITH WHICH TO ERECT A NEW JAIL FOR LEE COUNTY OR TO IMPROVE THE EXISTING JAIL OF SAID COUNTY.

The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

Section 1. All delinquent taxes hereafter collected by Lee County shall, at the discretion of the Board of Commissioners of Lee County, go into a special fund to be used under the direction and in the discretion of the Lee County Board of Commissioners for the purpose of erecting a new jail for Lee County and for the purpose of adding to and/or improving the existing jail.

Sec. 2. The Lee County Board of Commissioners is hereby authorized to levy, commencing with the 1959 tax levy, a special tax not in excess of five cents (5¢) on each one hundred dollars ($100.00) of property valuation of real and personal property to provide funds to be used in erecting a new jail for Lee County or for the purpose of adding to and/or improving the existing jail.

Sec. 3. The Board of County Commissioners of Lee County is hereby authorized, pending the use and disbursement of all funds which may hereafter be collected by reason of said delinquent taxes and special levy, to invest such funds in such manner as will meet the approval of the North Carolina Local Government Commission.

Sec. 4. All laws and clauses of laws in conflict with this Act are hereby repealed.

Sec. 5. 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 10th day of June, 1969.