NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1961 SESSION

CHAPTER 398

HOUSE BILL 343

AN ACT TO AMEND G. S. 160-183(a) BY REWRITING THE DEFINITION OF "MUNICIPALITY" THEREIN.

The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

Section 1. G. S. 160-183 (a), as the same appears in the 1959 Cumulative Supplement to Volume 3C of the General Statutes of North Carolina, and which presently reads: "(a) 'Municipality' shall mean any city or town having a population of five thousand or more, according to the last Federal census.", is hereby rewritten to read as follows: "(a) 'Municipality' shall mean any incorporated city or town."

Sec. 2. It is the purpose and intent of this Act to make the authority granted by Article 15, Chapter 160 of the General Statutes of North Carolina, entitled, "Repair, Closing and Demolition of Unfit Dwellings.", applicable to all incorporated cities and towns in North Carolina.

Sec. 2. a. In Gaston County, the definition of municipality shall be any incorporated city or town of five thousand or more, according to the last Federal census.

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 All laws and clauses of laws in conflict with this Act are hereby repealed.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 9th day of May, 1961.