GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA

1983 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 1078

SENATE BILL 877

 

AN ACT AUTHORIZING COUNTIES TO ESTABLISH CEMETERY SERVICE DISTRICTS.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

 

Section 1.  G.S. 153A-301 is amended by changing the period at the end of subdivision (8) to a semicolon and by adding a new subdivision to read:

"(9)      Cemeteries."

Sec. 2.  The Cherokee County Board of Commissioners shall hold a referendum in Valleytown Township on the question of establishing a cemetery service district in that Township.  If a majority of voters voting thereon approves the establishment of the district, the Cherokee County Board of Commissioners shall establish a cemetery service district in Valleytown Township and shall establish a Valleytown Township Cemetery Commission.  The question of establishing a cemetery service district in Valleytown Township, shall be submitted to the qualified voters of that Township at the general election in November, 1984.

Sec. 3.  This act is effective upon ratification.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 3rd day of July, 1984.