NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1961 SESSION

CHAPTER 262

HOUSE BILL 451

AN ACT TO AUTHORIZE PERQUIMANS COUNTY DRAINAGE DISTRICT NUMBER 4 TO EXPEND FUNDS.

The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

Section 1. The Board of Commissioners of Perquimans County Drainage District Number Four is hereby authorized and empowered, in addition to its existing powers and authority, to use any funds provided for in the cost estimate and certificate of assessment, dated the 3rd day of March, 1960, and filed with the Clerk of the Superior Court of Perquimans County, North Carolina, in the construction of access roads along the canals of the district to be used for the maintenance of said canals.

Sec. 2. The term "funds" as used herein shall be construed to include, but shall not necessarily be limited to, amounts allocated to the following items on the said cost estimate and certificate of assessment: Clearing rights-of-way, excavation, maintenance and contingencies; provided that the amount expended for construction of access roads together with the amounts expended for other purposes, as set forth in the cost estimate, shall not exceed the total amount so assessed.

Sec. 3. The construction costs of said maintenance access roads shall include the necessary grading, culverts, seeding and fertilizing of vegetation and other costs deemed necessary by the engineers of the district for the construction of said roads.

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 All laws and clauses of laws in conflict with this Act are hereby repealed.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 21st day of April, 1961.