NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1959 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 1045

SENATE BILL 472

 

 

AN ACT TO ESTABLISH A LAW LIBRARY IN VANCE COUNTY.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

 

Section 1. The Chairman of the Board of County Commissioners, the Clerk of the Superior Court, and the President of the Bar Association of Vance County and their successors in office, be and they are hereby, constituted the custodian of all books, supplies, equipment and furniture of the law library which shall be kept and maintained for the County of Vance and the use of the officials of said county and the courts held therein.

Sec. 2. All books, equipment, supplies and furniture of said library shall be the property of the County of Vance and said county is authorized and empowered to hold said property and to add thereto from time to time by gift, donation, purchase, or otherwise, such books, records, equipment and furniture as may be deemed reasonably necessary and proper for the use of said officials and courts.

Sec. 3. The Clerk of the Superior Court of Vance County shall be, and he is hereby, constituted to act as librarian of said library without compensation. It shall be the duty of said librarian to keep said library open during such hours as may be fixed by the custodian hereinbefore provided for and shall obey all rules and regulations which may be prescribed for the government and management of said library.

Sec. 4. In order to provide for the establishment, extension, maintenance and support of the said library, the sum of fifty cents (50¢) shall be taxed as costs and collected by the Clerk of the Superior Court in each and every case tried and disposed of in the Superior Courts of Vance County after the effective date of this Act, except in cases in which said county is adjudged to pay all costs, and shall be set apart in a fund to be known and designated as the Law Library Fund, and said fund shall be deposited by the Clerk of the Superior Court in a bank designated for that purpose, and shall be used solely for the purpose of the establishment, extension, maintenance and operation of the said library.

Sec. 5. It shall also be the duty of the Clerk of the Recorder's Court of Vance County, after the effective date of this Act, to collect from the defendant in each and every case finally disposed of in his court, except in cases in which Vance County is adjudged to pay all costs, the sum of fifty cents (50¢) which amount shall be immediately paid to the Clerk of the Superior Court of Vance County to supplement the aforesaid library fund and which shall be expended in the way and manner provided in this Act.

Sec. 6. From the funds so collected from time to time as provided in Sections 4 and 5 of this Act, it shall be the duty of the Clerk of the Superior Court of Vance County to purchase and pay for such volumes and sets of books as shall be recommended and agreed upon from time to time by the Chairman of the Board of Commissioners of Vance County, the Clerk of the Superior Court of said county, and a committee to be appointed annually by the Vance County Bar Association. All checks on said account shall be drawn and signed by the Clerk of the Superior Court of Vance County, and it shall be the duty of the said clerk to keep a correct account of all receipts and disbursements in connection with the said library fund.

Sec. 7. All laws and clauses of laws in conflict with this Act are hereby repealed.

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 June, 1959.