NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1977 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 336

HOUSE BILL 816

 

 

AN ACT AUTHORIZING THE ESTABLISHMENT OF MASS TRANSIT DISTRICTS IN GASTON COUNTY.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

 

Section 1. G.S. 153A-301, as the same appears in the 1975 cumulative supplement to Volume 3C of the General Statutes, is hereby amended by adding a new subdivision (8) to read as follows:

"(8)      Mass transportation."

Sec. 2. The Board of County Commissioners of Gaston County is authorized to call for a referendum to determine if mass transit districts should be established in certain areas of the county; and if property taxes, as authorized by Article 16, Chapter 153A, should be approved to finance, provide and maintain such districts.

Sec. 3. If the referendum approves the formation of such districts and the taxing proposal, the Board of County Commissioners of Gaston County may then follow the provisions set out in Article 16, Chapter 153A of the General Statutes, in establishing mass transit districts.

Sec. 4. This act shall be applicable only in Gaston County.

Sec. 5. This act shall become effective upon ratification.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 9th day of May, 1977.