NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1959 SESSION

CHAPTER 415

SENATE BILL 183

AN ACT VALIDATING AND CONFIRMING THE APPOINTMENT OR ELECTION OF MEMBERS 0F SANITARY DISTRICT BOARDS AND ALL ACTIONS AND PROCEEDINGS TAKEN IN RELATION TO THE ANNEXATION OF ADDITIONAL TERRITORY BY SANITARY DISTRICTS.

The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

Section 1. All actions and proceedings heretofore had and taken in the appointment or election of any members of any sanitary district board and the appointment or election of any such members are hereby in all respects legalized, ratified, approved, validated and confirmed, and any and all members of any such board heretofore appointed or elected shall have all the powers and may perform all the duties required or permitted of them to be performed pursuant to the provisions of Article 12, Chapter 130, General Statutes of North Carolina, until their respective successors are elected and qualified; provided, however, that any vacancy in any sanitary district board may be filled as provided in G. S. 130-127.

Sec. 2. All actions and proceedings heretofore had and taken by the State Board of Health or any officer or representative thereof, any board of county commissioners and any sanitary district board for the purpose of annexing additional territory to any sanitary district or with respect to any such annexation are hereby in all respects legalized, ratified, approved, validated and confirmed, notwithstanding any lack of power to take such actions or proceedings or any defect or irregularity in any such actions or proceedings, and any and all such sanitary districts are hereby declared to be lawfully extended to include such additional territory and as so extended to be in all respects legal and valid sanitary districts.

Sec. 3. The provisions of this Act are severable, and if any of its provisions shall be held unconstitutional by any court of competent jurisdiction, the decision of such court shall not affect or impair any of the remaining provisions.

Sec. 4. All laws and clauses of laws in conflict with this Act are hereby repealed.

Sec. 5. 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 1st day of May, 1959.