NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1961 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 412

HOUSE BILL 503

 

 

AN ACT RELATING TO THE PREPARATION, FILING AND PUBLISHING OF THE ANNUAL REPORT OF THE CLERK OF SUPERIOR COURT OF FORSYTH COUNTY.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

 

Section 1. The Clerk of the Superior Court of Forsyth County shall on the first Monday in December of each year file with the Forsyth County Board of Commissioners an annual report of public funds as hereinafter provided. The period to be covered by each annual report shall begin with November 1st of the previous year and continue through October 31st of the year in which the report is prepared and filed.

Said report shall contain a statement of all funds on hand and carried under miscellaneous trust, with the exception of the following: increased bids, cash bonds, and deposits made in condemnation proceedings.

The Board of Commissioners, after examining the report, shall deliver same to the Register of Deeds who shall record the report in the record of official reports. The clerk to the Board of Commissioners shall cause to be published a copy of said report one time in some newspaper of general circulation published in Forsyth County and qualified to publish legal notices.

Sec. 2. The Clerk of the Superior Court shall during the month of January of each year pay over to the General Fund of Forsyth County all money held by him to cover checks issued by said Clerk of the Superior Court that have not been cashed and have been outstanding for more than twelve months prior to January 1st of that year. Any money so paid over to the General Fund of Forsyth County as herein provided may be used by the County as other General Funds are used under the direction of the Board of County Commissioners, provided, that if any person presenting a check theretofore issued by the Clerk of the Superior Court, the funds to cover such check having been paid over to the General Fund of Forsyth County, the Clerk of the Superior Court may issue his official check to pay such person legally entitled to such money, and the County shall reimburse him for such funds so paid that were previously paid over to the General Fund as hereinbefore provided, and the Clerk of the Superior Court shall be relieved of all liability by reason of having paid over to the General Fund of Forsyth County funds held wherein checks have been previously issued and have been outstanding for more than one year prior to January 1st, the month during which such funds are paid over to the General Fund of the County.

Sec. 3. This Act shall apply to Forsyth County only.

Sec. 4. That the provisions of G. S. 2-46 and G. S. 2-47 shall not apply to the Clerk of the Superior Court of Forsyth County.

Sec. 5. All laws and clauses of laws in conflict with this Act, and in particular Chapter 109, Public Laws, Session 1941, and Chapter 11, Session Laws of 1945, are hereby repealed.

Sec. 6. 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 12th day of May, 1961.