NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1975 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 537

HOUSE BILL 876

 

AN ACT TO AMEND CHAPTER 1184 OF THE SESSION LAWS OF 1949, AS AMENDED, THE CHARTER OF THE CITY OF RALEIGH WITH RESPECT TO COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMS AND ACTIVITIES.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

 

Section 1.  Section 22 of the Raleigh City Charter, Chapter 1184 of the 1949 Session Laws of North Carolina is hereby amended by adding a new subsection thereto, designated (77) and to appear as follows:

"Community development programs and activities. – (a)  The City of Raleigh, through its governing body, is authorized to engage in, to accept federal and State grants and loans for, and to appropriate and expend funds for community development programs and activities. In undertaking community development programs and activities, in addition to other authority granted by law, the City of Raleigh may engage in the following activities:

(1)       programs for the assistance and financing of rehabilitation of private buildings, including direct repair, the making of grants or loans, the subsidization of interest payments on loans, and the guaranty of loans, for: (a) the principal benefit of low and moderate income persons, or (b) the revitalization of deteriorating or deteriorated neighborhoods to attract persons of higher income, or (c) the restoration and preservation of properties or neighborhoods of special value for historic, architectural or esthetic reasons, or of special value to efforts to conserve, rehabilitate and enhance older segments of the community.

(2)       programs concerned with employment, economic development, crime prevention, child care, health, drug abuse, education, and welfare needs of persons of low and moderate income.

(b)       The City Council of the City of Raleigh may exercise directly those powers granted by law to municipal redevelopment commissions and those powers granted by law to municipal housing authorities. The city council may delegate to any redevelopment commission or to any housing authority the responsibility of undertaking or carrying out any specified community development activities. The City Council and the Board of County Commissioners of Wake County may by agreement undertake or carry out for each other any specified community development activities. The city council may contract with any person, association, or corporation in undertaking any specified community development activities. The County or City Board of Health, Wake County Board of Social Services, or the Board of Education of any unit within Wake County may by agreement undertake or carry out for the city council any specified community development activities.

(c)       The City Council of the City of Raleigh in undertaking community development programs or activities may create one or more advisory committees to advise it and to make recommendations concerning such programs or activities.

(d)       The City Council of the City of Raleigh in proposing to undertake any loan guaranty or similar program for rehabilitation of private buildings is authorized to submit to its voters the question whether such program shall be undertaken, such referendum to be conducted pursuant to the general and local laws applicable to special elections in the City of Raleigh.

(e)       No property taxes shall be appropriated or expended by the City of Raleigh pursuant to this section for any purpose not expressly authorized by G.S. 160A-209, unless the same is first submitted to a vote of the people as therein provided."

Sec. 2. This act shall become effective upon ratification.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 10th day of June, 1975.