NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1959 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 1229

HOUSE BILL 1333

 

 

AN ACT AUTHORIZING THE BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS OF GREENE COUNTY TO ESTABLISH A LAW LIBRARY IN GREENE COUNTY.

 

WHEREAS, an adequate Law Library is necessary and desirable for the effective operation of the courts and for the use of court officials in Greene County; and

WHEREAS, the establishment of a Law Library in said county will promote the best interest of the litigants, courts, court officials and citizens of said county; and

WHEREAS, it is desirable to provide for the proper equipment, books and periodicals, and for the proper support and maintenance of said library: Now, therefore,

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

 

Section 1. The Board of Commissioners of Greene County is hereby authorized in its discretion, to establish a Law Library in the courthouse in Snow Hill to be known as the Greene County Law Library, which shall be kept and maintained as provided by this Act for the County of Greene and the use of the officials of said county, the officers of the courts held therein and the general public, and the said commissioners are further authorized to provide suitable housing space for said Law Library, together with funds to purchase books, furnishings, supplies, equipment, furniture and records, and the said Law Library and its equipment shall remain the property of Greene County.

Sec. 2. The Board of County Commissioners of Greene County is authorized and empowered in its discretion to appropriate out of the funds of said county not derived from ad valorem taxes a sum not to exceed one thousand dollars ($1,000.00), to be used to establish said Law Library, and is authorized to take title to the property purchased for such purpose and to add thereto from time to time, by gift, donation, purchase or otherwise, such additional books and equipment as may be deemed reasonably necessary and proper for the maintenance of said library and for the purpose of such maintenance of said Law Library from and after its initial establishment by the said board of county commissioners.

Sec. 3. The Board of County Commissioners of Greene County is hereby further authorized to make such initial purchases in its discretion for the establishment of said Law Library upon the down payment of such sum as said commissioners in their discretion shall determine and to execute contracts for the deferred payments therefor over a period of time not to exceed four years.

Sec. 4. That the Clerk of Superior Court of Greene County, together with the members of the bar of said county shall be custodians of said library and the equipment therefor.

Sec. 5. All laws and clauses of laws in conflict with this Act are hereby repealed.

Sec. 6. 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 19th day of June, 1959.