NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1963 SESSION

CHAPTER 137

HOUSE BILL 130

AN ACT TO AUTHORIZE THE BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS OF PITT COUNTY TO CALL A SPECIAL OR GENERAL ELECTION TO AUTHORIZE THE LEVY OF AN ADDITIONAL TAX OF FIVE CENTS ON EACH ONE HUNDRED DOLLARS VALUATION OF PROPERTY IN PITT COUNTY TO PROVIDE FOR THE MAINTENANCE, SUPPORT AND OPERATION OF PITT COUNTY MEMORIAL HOSPITAL, INC.

The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

Section 1. The Board of County Commissioners of Pitt County is authorized and empowered to call a special or general election to submit to a vote of the qualified registered voters of Pitt County the question of levying and collecting annually an ad valorem tax for the special purpose of maintaining, supporting, and operating Pitt County Memorial Hospital, Inc. from year to year an additional tax not to exceed five cents (5¢) on the one hundred dollars ($100.00) assessed valuation of taxable property in Pitt County.

Sec. 2. There shall be no new registration of voters of Pitt County for such election. The registration books shall be open only for the purpose of registration of new voters in Pitt County as provided by the general election laws for the election of members of the General Assembly. If the additional tax levy be approved by a majority of qualified voters who shall vote on such question, the Board of County Commissioners of Pitt County is authorized to levy and collect such additional tax not to exceed five cents (5¢) on each one hundred dollars ($100.00) valuation of property in Pitt County, and thereafter the Board of County Commissioners of Pitt County is authorized to levy such additional tax in addition to the five cents (5¢) tax heretofore voted on and authorized by the voters of Pitt County for the purposes enumerated herein; the total tax not to exceed ten cents (10¢) on the one hundred dollars ($100.00) valuation of property in Pitt County. The amount of said tax to be levied and collected annually shall be decided by the Board of County Commissioners of Pitt County and included in each year's budget. The General Assembly does hereby give its special approval to the levy of the tax for the special purposes referred to in this Act.

Sec. 3. The special or general election provided for in this Act shall be conducted under the applicable provisions of the general election laws of the State providing for the election of members of the General Assembly, and it may be held at any general election or at any special election to be called by the Board of County Commissioners of Pitt County, and the time of calling said election is to be determined by the Board of County Commissioners of Pitt County if the authority granted hereby is exercised.

Sec. 4. All laws and clauses of laws in conflict with the provisions of this Act are hereby repealed; however, the powers granted by this Act are in addition to and not in substitution for existing powers heretofore granted to Pitt County.

Sec. 5. 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 2nd day of April, 1963.