NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1967 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 61

HOUSE BILL 163

 

 

AN ACT CONFERRING UPON WAYNE COUNTY AND THE INCORPORATED MUNICIPALITIES THEREIN THE POWER AND AUTHORITY TO MERGE CERTAIN BRANCHES OR DEPARTMENTS OF COUNTY GOVERNMENT WITH SIMILAR BRANCHES OR DEPARTMENTS OF THE GOVERNMENT OF SAID MUNICIPALITIES, AND, BY AGREEMENT WITH THE MUNICIPALITIES THEREIN, TO PROVIDE FOR THE ORGANIZATION, OPERATION, MAINTENANCE AND CONTROL OF ANY GOVERNMENTAL DEPARTMENTS MERGED HEREUNDER AND FOR THE TERMINATION OF SUCH MERGER.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

 

Section 1. For the purpose of providing a more efficient and economical administration of certain functions of government and to promote greater convenience to the citizens, the County of Wayne and any incorporated municipality located therein are hereby authorized and empowered to merge any branch or department of government of the County of Wayne with the similar branches or departments of any such municipality located therein.

Sec. 2. Any such merger of any branch or department of government and functions thereof shall take place only when approved by a majority of the members of the Board of Commissioners of Wayne County and a majority of the members of the governing body of the incorporated municipality involved.

Sec. 3. Provisions for the organization, operation, maintenance and control of any such merged branch or department of government shall, in respect to all matters including the sharing of the costs thereof and for the termination of such merger, be determined by agreement of the Board of Commissioners of Wayne County and the governing body of the incorporated municipality involved.

Sec. 4. Any branch or department of the government of Wayne County merged, as herein provided, with a similar branch or department of the government of any incorporated municipality therein, together with the duly appointed officers and employees thereof, shall be vested with all of the powers and charged with all of the obligations and penalties as is now and may from time to time be vested in and charged by law to such branch or department and officers and employees thereof where the same are separately operated by the respective governmental unit.

Sec. 5. If any provisions of this Act or the application thereof to any person or governmental branch or department or circumstances are held invalid, such invalidity shall not affect other provisions or applications of the Act which can be given effect without the invalid provisions or ap­plication, and to this end the provisions of this Act are declared to be severable.

Sec. 6. All laws and clauses of laws and all Charter provisions or clauses of Charter provisions in conflict with the purpose of this Act shall be and the same are hereby repealed to the extent of such conflict.

Sec. 7. This Act shall apply only to Wayne County and the incor­porated municipalities therein.

Sec. 8. 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 17th day of March, 1967.