NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1961 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 36

SENATE BILL 57

 

 

AN ACT TO AMEND CHAPTER 533 OF THE 1947 SESSION LAWS OF NORTH CAROLINA SO AS TO CLARIFY THE AUTHORITY THEREIN GIVEN TO THE CITY OF LAURINBURG AND THE TOWN OF MAXTON TO DISPOSE OF THEIR INTERESTS IN ANY PORTION OF THE MAXTON-LAURINBURG AIRPORT, WHETHER NOW OWNED OR HEREAFTER ACQUIRED, AT PRIVATE SALE, WITHOUT ADVERTISEMENT, AND RATIFYING AND VALIDATING ANY CONVEYANCES THEREOF WHICH THEY MAY HAVE PREVIOUSLY MADE.

 

WHEREAS, by Chapter 533 of the 1947 Session Laws of North Carolina, the City of Laurinburg and the Town of Maxton were authorized and empowered to take such joint action as they might agree upon, in order to dispose of such joint and several interests as the two municipalities might own in any portion of that property in Scotland County known as the Maxton-Laurinburg Airport; and

WHEREAS, by reason of the fact that the Act did not specifically refer to any portion of the Maxton-Laurinburg Airport property which might be acquired by the two municipalities after the date of the ratification of Chapter 533, some question might hereafter arise as to their authority to dispose of such after-acquired property; and

WHEREAS, the provisions of Chapter 533 of the 1947 Session Laws of the State of North Carolina were intended to apply not only to any portion of the Maxton-Laurinburg Airport property which might then be owned by the municipalities, but also to any portion of that property and any interests therein which they might acquire at any time thereafter: Now, therefore,

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

 

Section 1. Section 1 of Chapter 533 of the 1947 Session Laws of North Carolina is hereby amended to read as follows:

"Section 1. The governing bodies of the Town of Maxton in Robeson County and the City of Laurinburg in Scotland County are hereby authorized and empowered to take such joint action as they may agree upon in order to dispose of such joint and several interests as the two municipalities may now own, or may hereafter acquire, in any portion of that property in Scotland County known as the Maxton-Laurinburg Airport."

Sec. 2. Section 4 of Chapter 533 of the 1947 Session Laws of North Carolina is hereby amended to read as follows:

"Sec. 4. All acts or transactions heretofore undertaken or performed in good faith by the governing bodies of the Town of Maxton and the City of Laurinburg in furtherance of the acquirement, development, maintenance, or disposition of any portion of the Maxton-Laurinburg Airport are hereby validated and confirmed; and all deeds and bills of sale heretofore executed by the governing bodies of the municipalities conveying any portion of the Maxton-Laurinburg Airport property owned by the municipalities, whether owned on March 28, 1947, when Chapter 533 was enacted, or thereafter acquired, are hereby validated and confirmed in all respects."

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

Sec. 4. 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 14th day of March, 1961.