NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1967 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 486

HOUSE BILL 870

 

 

AN ACT TO PERMIT THE BUILDING OF A NEW COURTHOUSE IN WATAUGA COUNTY ON A NEW SITE.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

 

Section 1. Notwithstanding the provisions of the bond order adopted by the Board of Commissioners for the County of Watauga on the third day of October, 1966 and approved by the voters of said County at an election on November 8, 1966, which order authorized the issuance of four hundred fifty thousand dollars ($450,000.00) bonds of said County for the purpose of financing the construction, on the site of the existing County courthouse, of a new building for use as a County courthouse and the acquisition of equipment and furnishings suitable for such improvement, the proceeds of said bonds may be used for such construction of a new building and the acquisition of necessary equipment and furnishings therefor on a site to be selected by the Board of Commissioners for said County other than that of the existing County courthouse: Provided, such other site is located within one-half mile of the site of the existing County courthouse.

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 All laws and clauses of laws in conflict with this Act are hereby repealed.

Sec. 3. This Act shall become effective on the date of its ratification.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 16th day of May, 1967.