NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1973 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 263

HOUSE BILL 674

 

AN ACT CONCERNING TAXING DISTRICTS IN GUILFORD COUNTY.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

 

Section 1. G.S. 130-124, G.S. 69-25.1 and G.S. 153-368 are hereby amended by adding at the end of each respective section a new paragraph to read as follows:

"Notwithstanding the provisions of this Article, the Board of County Commissioners of Guilford County shall have the authority to amend or change any proposed taxing district or to amend any proposed change in an existing taxing district in Guilford County. The Board of County Commissioners shall also have the authority to deny any petition to establish or modify such taxing district. Any registered voter in Guilford County who owns real property in any proposed taxing district to be established or in any district proposed to be modified, may register and become an eligible voter in any district election or referendum except bond elections and any election on the levy of taxes submitted in connection with the issuance of general obligation or revenue bonds."

Sec. 2. This act shall only be applicable to Guilford County.

Sec. 3. This act shall become effective upon ratification.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 25th day of April, 1973.