NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1961 SESSION

CHAPTER 600

SENATE BILL 328

AN ACT RELATING TO LEASING OF THE COUNTY HOME FACILITIES OF MECKLENBURG COUNTY.

The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

Section 1. That the Board of Commissioners of Mecklenburg County is authorized in its discretion to lease, in whole or in part, the facilities now maintained by Mecklenburg County as the County Home, to such charitable, public or private institution or to such person, persons, or corporation found by the board to be qualified to operate such facility. Such lease shall be upon such terms and conditions as shall be found by the board of commissioners to be in the best interest of the county; provided, however, that no such lease shall be for a term in excess of five (5) years; provided, further, that upon the expiration of such initial term, such lease or leases may be renewed from time to time, for terms not in excess of five (5) years.

Provided, further, that any lease or leases so entered into by the county shall contain a provision that the lease may be terminated upon a finding by the board of commissioners that the facilities as maintained by the lessee are substandard and inadequate to provide for the comfort and well-being of the county aged and infirm under the care of such institution and further provided that such lease shall require the lessee to give priority to indigent cases referred to the lessee by the Welfare Department of Mecklenburg County.

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 All laws and clauses of laws in conflict with this Act are hereby repealed.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 2nd day of June, 1961.