NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1959 SESSION

CHAPTER 321

SENATE BILL 156

AN ACT TO REPEAL AN ACT PASSED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF 1959, ORIGINALLY DESIGNATED AS "S. B. 36", AND RATIFIED ON MARCH 6, 1959, AND TO REWRITE SUBSECTION (2) OF G. S. 157-3, PERTAINING TO THE HOUSING AUTHORITIES LAW AS APPLICABLE IN CHEROKEE, CLAY, GRAHAM, MACON AND SWAIN COUNTIES AND CITIES AND TOWNS THEREIN.

The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

Section 1. That a certain Act passed by the General Assembly of 1959, ratified on March 6, 1959, and entitled: "A BILL TO BE ENTITLED AN ACT TO AMEND CHAPTER 157 OF THE GENERAL STATUTES, KNOWN AS 'THE HOUSING AUTHORITIES LAW', BY PROVIDING THAT SAID CHAPTER 157 OF THE GENERAL STATUTES, KNOWN AS 'THE HOUSING AUTHORITIES LAW', SHALL APPLY TO ALL CITIES AND TOWNS IN CHEROKEE, CLAY, GRAHAM, MACON AND SWAIN COUNTIES HAVING A POPULATION OF FIVE HUNDRED OF MORE INHABITANTS", be, and the same is hereby, repealed.

Sec. 2. That subsection (2) of G. S. 157-3 of the General Statutes be, and the same is hereby, amended, by striking out all of said subsection (2) and inserting in lieu thereof the following:

"(2)      'City' shall mean any city or town having a population of more than 5,000 inhabitants (according to the last Federal census or any revision or amendment thereto); provided, however, that in the Counties of Cherokee, Clay, Graham, Macon, and Swain, 'city' shall mean any city or town having a population of more than 500 inhabitants (according to the last Federal census or any revision or amendment thereto)."

Sec. 3. All laws and clauses of laws in conflict with the provisions of this Act are hereby repealed.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 21st day of April, 1959.