NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1963 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 828

HOUSE BILL 1114

 

 

AN ACT TO AUTHORIZE THE GOVERNING AUTHORITY OF ANY MUNICIPAL CORPORATION IN ITS DISCRETION TO SUBMIT TO THE PEOPLE OF THE MUNICIPALITY THE QUESTION OF WHETHER OR NOT THE PROCESS OF FLUORIDATION SHOULD BE UTILIZED IN THE MUNICIPAL WATER SUPPLY.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

 

Section 1. Amend Section 3.41 of the Charter of the City of Burlington, as the same appears in Section 1 of Chapter 119 of the Session Laws of 1961, by adding to said Section 3.41 a new subsection, to be designated as "subsection (c)", and which new subsection shall read as follows:

"(c)     The City Council may in its discretion submit the question of whether or not the process of fluoridation may be used in the municipal water supply of the City of Burlington to the voters of said municipality. Such election or referendum shall be held under the election provisions as contained in the Charter of the City of Burlington and shall in substance submit the question of whether the electors of the City of Burlington are for the process of fluoridation in the municipal water supply of Burlington or whether or not the electors of the City of Burlington are against such process. If a majority of the qualified electors voting in said election are for the use of fluorine in the municipal water supply, then as a health measure the process of fluoridation shall be used in such water supply. If a majority of the qualified electors voting in said election or referendum are against the fluoridation process, then the same shall not be introduced into the water supply."

Sec. 2. That this Act shall apply to the City of Burlington in Alamance County only.

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 All laws and clauses of laws in conflict with this Act are hereby repealed.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 11th day of June, 1963.