NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1961 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 1049

SENATE BILL 471

 

 

AN ACT TO AUTHORIZE THE COUNTY OF HALIFAX TO APPROPRIATE FUNDS FROM NON-TAX SOURCES FOR A PORTION OF MATCHING FUNDS TO BE USED FOR THE IMPROVEMENT AND DEVELOPMENT OF HALIFAX COUNTY AIRPORT.

 

WHEREAS, the County of Halifax is the owner of the Halifax County Airport near the City of Roanoke Rapids, which airport is now under lease to and is operated by the City of Roanoke Rapids as an airport serving the entire County of Halifax; and

WHEREAS, opportunity for the City of Roanoke Rapids and the County of Halifax to secure matching funds from the Federal Government for improvement of the said Halifax County Airport has arisen; and

WHEREAS, it is considered to be in the interest of the people of Halifax County generally, as well as in the interest of the people of the City of Roanoke Rapids and surrounding communities to have improved airport facilities available for development of aerial commerce in Halifax County: Now, therefore,

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

 

Section 1. The Board of County Commissioners of Halifax County is hereby authorized to appropriate and expend funds derived from nontax sources for the improvement of the Halifax County Airport, in such sums as it, in its discretion, may consider necessary, up to a maximum of twelve thousand dollars ($12,000.00).

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 All laws and clauses of laws in conflict with this Act are hereby repealed.

Sec. 3. 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 19th day of June, 1961.