NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1973 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 218

HOUSE BILL 663

 

AN ACT PROVIDING FOR THE TRANSFER OF THE PUBLIC LIBRARY OF CHARLOTTE AND MECKLENBURG COUNTY.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

 

Section 1. The Board of Commissioners of Mecklenburg County is hereby authorized and empowered to assume direct control of the Public Library of Charlotte and Mecklenburg County. The Board of Commissioners may exercise the power and authority herein conferred only after a public hearing held by said Board pursuant to thirty days' notice of said public hearing given in a newspaper having general circulation in said county. Upon the adoption of said resolution, the Public Library of Charlotte and Mecklenburg County shall become a department or agency of Mecklenburg County and all real and personal property and all other assets and liabilities shall be and become owned by, vested in and/or imposed upon said county.  All persons theretofore employed by the Public Library of Charlotte and Mecklenburg County shall become employees of Mecklenburg County and shall be entitled to all rights and benefits afforded county employees by county personnel regulations; provided, however, that said employees shall retain all fringe benefits theretofore acquired as employees prior to the effective date of said resolution.

Sec. 2. Upon the effective date of the transfer of the Public Library of Charlotte and Mecklenburg County to the County of Mecklenburg, as hereinabove authorized, Chapter 16, Private Laws of 1903, and Chapter 366, Public-Local Laws of 1939, and Chapter 710 of Session Laws of 1965 are repealed, and the library system herein conveyed to Mecklenburg  County shall be operated and maintained in accordance with the provisions of G.S. 153-261 through 270 and as the same may from time to time be amended.

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 All laws and clauses of laws in conflict with this act are hereby repealed.

Sec. 4. This act shall become effective upon ratification.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 17th day of April, 1973.