NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1963 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 933

HOUSE BILL 713

 

 

AN ACT TO AMEND G. S. 153-9 SO AS TO AUTHORIZE COUNTY COMMISSIONERS IN SEVERAL NAMED COUNTIES TO ASSIST FINANCIALLY THE PROMOTION OF FARM SOIL AND WATER CONSERVATION WORK.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

 

Section 1. G. S. 153-9 is hereby amended by adding thereto a new subdivision 35¾ to follow subdivision 351/2, and to read as follows:

"35¾. Expenditures for Soil and Water Conservation Work. The board of county commissioners of any county is hereby authorized to cooperate with the National Soil Conservation Service and the State Soil and Water Conservation Agencies and Districts to promote soil and water conservation work, and to appropriate from tax revenues such sums as they may deem advisable for this purpose. The General Assembly does hereby give its special approval for such expenditures. The authority to expend county funds for such purpose conferred by this subdivision shall be in addition to the authority conferred by subdivision 35½ of this Section or by any other provision of law."

Sec. 2. This Act shall apply only to the following counties: Anson, Brunswick, Columbus, Sampson, Perquimans, Onslow, Davie, Polk, and Chatham.

Sec. 3. All laws and clauses of laws in conflict with this Act are hereby repealed.

Sec. 4. This Act shall take effect upon its ratification.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 14th day of June, 1963.