NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1959 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 1237

SENATE BILL 65

 

 

AN ACT TO AMEND CHAPTER 154 OF THE GENERAL STATUTES, RELATING TO COUNTY SURVEYORS.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

 

Section 1. Chapter 154 of the General Statutes is rewritten to read as follows:

"G. S. 154-1. County Commissioners May Appoint. A county surveyor may be appointed in each county by the county commissioners. The county surveyor shall serve at the pleasure of the county commissioners and his duties shall be as directed by the county commissioners not inconsistent with provisions of the General Statutes of North Carolina.

"G. S. 154-2. Qualifications. The county surveyor shall have qualifications for his employment consistent with appropriate provisions of Chapter 89, General Statutes of North Carolina, as amended."

Sec. 1A. This Act shall not apply to Washington, Tyrrell, Jackson, Swain, Johnston, Davie, Burke, Watauga, Greene, Macon, Mitchell, Clay, Ashe, Avery, Wilkes, Sampson, Hyde, Stanly, Person, Cherokee, Pender, Northampton, Lee, Harnett, Madison, Polk, Cumberland, Lincoln and Alexander Counties.

Sec. 1.1. This Act shall not apply to Stanly and Carteret Counties.

In Stanly and Carteret Counties there shall be elected in each of said counties, by the qualified voters thereof, as provided for the election of members of the General Assembly, a county surveyor, who shall hold office for the term of two years.

In each of said counties the surveyor may appoint deputies, who shall, previous to entering on the duties of their office, be qualified in a similar manner with the surveyor; and the surveyor making such appointment shall be liable for the conduct of such deputies, as for his own conduct in office.

The county surveyors of each of said counties are empowered to administer oaths to all such persons as are required by law to be sworn in making partition of real estate, in laying off widow's dower, in establishing boundaries and in surveying vacant lands under warrant.

Sec. 2. All laws and clauses of laws in conflict with provisions of this Act are hereby repealed.

Sec. 3. 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 20th day of June, 1959.