NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1973 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 275

HOUSE BILL 765

 

AN ACT TO ABOLISH SEPARATE SCHOOL TAX DISTRICTS IN THE AREA OF PITT COUNTY OUTSIDE OF THE GREENVILLE CITY SCHOOL ADMINISTRATIVE UNIT AND TO ESTABLISH ONE PITT COUNTY SCHOOL ADMINISTRATIVE UNIT IN THE AREA FOR ALL PURPOSES AND TO PROVIDE FOR A SUPPLEMENTAL TAX LEVY FOR CURRENT EXPENSES THEREIN.

 

Whereas, a referendum was submitted to the voters and a favorable vote obtained allowing Pitt County to assume all school indebtedness, including school bond indebtedness; and

Whereas, all of the area outside of the Greenville City School Administrative Unit has been designated by the Pitt County Board of Education and the State Board of Education as a single district for the attendance of pupils in the County Schools; and

Whereas, there only remains in the area outside of the Greenville City School Administrative Unit old districts which voted a supplemental tax levy therein and schools in the area have been consolidated so that the pupils residing in the old school tax districts do not necessarily now attend schools in the old school tax district in which they reside and in which the supplemental tax levies were voted; and

Whereas, the Pitt County Board of Education and the Pitt County Board of Commissioners recognize the need for one administrative unit in the County outside of the Greenville City School Administrative Unit so that there would remain only one administrative unit for all purposes, including attendance of pupils, supplemental tax levies (except for County-wide tax levies), and administration, to the end that each child in the Pitt County Administrative Unit would receive the same financial support from all tax levies in the district; Now, therefore,

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

 

Section 1. That all old supplemental tax levy districts outside of the Greenville City School Administrative Unit be abolished and that there be established one school tax district (except for County-wide tax levies) for the Pitt County School Administrative Unit in the area outside of the Greenville City School Administrative Unit as presently constituted.

Sec. 2. That there be established one school district for all purposes in the area outside of the Greenville City School Administrative Unit as presently constituted, including attendance and enrollment of pupils, school tax levies (except for County-wide tax levies), and the administration of the schools in the area, to be know as the "Pitt County School Administrative Unit".

Sec. 3. That a supplemental tax for current expenses is hereby established in the Pitt County School Administrative Unit to provide for funds to be used to supplement the current expense funds from State and County allotments and to operate schools of a higher standard by supplementing any item of expenditure in the school budget in the maximum amount not to exceed twenty-five cents (25¢) on the one hundred dollar ($100.00) valuation of property, real and personal, in the district, and the Pitt County School Administrative Unit may file a supplemental budget therefor and request that a sufficient levy be made by the Pitt County Board of Commissioners, the tax levying authority, not in excess of the rate of twenty-five cents (25¢) on the one hundred dollar ($100.00) valuation of property, real and personal, in the district, and the Pitt County Board of Commissioners, the tax levying authority, may approve or disapprove this supplemental budget in whole or in part and, if the Pitt County Board of Commissioners, the tax levying authority, approves the supplemental budget request, sufficient taxes shall be levied, if necessary, to provide for the approved budget for supplemental purposes not exceeding the amount of twenty-five cents (25¢) on the one hundred dollar ($100.00) valuation of all real and personal property within the district.

Sec. 4. This act shall apply only to Pitt County.

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 26th day of April, 1973.