NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY
1973 SESSION
CHAPTER 303
HOUSE BILL 568
AN ACT TO DELETE CATAWBA COUNTY FROM THE PROVISIONS OF CERTAIN OBSOLETE PUBLIC, PRIVATE AND PUBLIC LOCAL LAWS OF NORTH CAROLINA.
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
Section 1. That Catawba County, having been formerly included along with other counties, shall be omitted from all provisions of the following acts:
1939 Public Laws: Chapter 294
1935 Public Laws: Chapter 7
1929 Public Local Laws: Chapter 76, 378
1927 Public Laws: Chapter 42
1925 Public Local Laws: Chapter 449
1923 Public Local Laws: Chapter 107
1921 Public Laws (Ex. Sess.): Chapter 6
1921 Public Local Laws (Ex. Sess.): Chapter 61
1917 Public Local Laws: Chapter 574
1911 Public Local Laws: Chapters 69, 83, 218
1909 Public Laws: Chapter 824
1907 Public Laws: Chapter 112
1905 Public Laws: Chapters 305, 21
1903 Public Laws: Chapters 276, 478, 482, 598
1901 Public Laws: Chapters 265, 554
1899 Public Laws: Chapters 17, 523, 696
1897 Public Laws: Chapter 395
1895 Public Laws: Chapter 426
1891 Public Laws: Chapters 75, 172
1889 Public Laws: Chapter 362
1887 Public Laws: Chapter 209
1885 Public Laws: Chapters 149, 179
1883 Public Laws: Chapter 155
1881 Public Laws: Chapters 153, 234
1879 Public Laws: Chapter 232
1874-75 Public Laws: Chapters 80, 163
1858-59 Public Laws: Chapter 176
Sec. 2. This act shall not be deemed to repeal, modify or in any manner affect any validating laws applying to Catawba County. As used in this section, the term "validating laws" means laws ratifying, confirming, approving or validating official proceedings, actions, contracts, bonds or obligations of any kind.
Sec. 3. No provision of this act is intended, nor shall any be construed, to affect in any way any right or interest:
(a) now vested or accrued, in whole or in part, the validity of which might be sustained or preserved by reference to any provision of law repealed by this act; or
(b) derived from, or which might be sustained or preserved in reliance upon, action heretofore taken (including the adoption of ordinances and resolutions) pursuant to or within the scope of any provision of law repealed by this act.
Sec. 4. No law repealed, expressly or by implication, nor any law the provisions of which Catawba County shall have been omitted from, before the effective date of this act is revived by:
(a) the repeal in this act of any act repealing that law, or
(b) any provision of this act that disclaims an intention to repeal or affect enumerated laws.
Sec. 5. All laws and clauses of laws in conflict with this act are hereby repealed.
Sec. 6. This act shall be effective on and after ratification.
In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 3rd day of May, 1973.