NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1979 SESSION

CHAPTER 1274

HOUSE BILL 1650

AN ACT AMENDING CHAPTER 501 OF THE 1979 SESSION LAWS, THE SAME BEING THE CHARTER OF THE CITY OF HIGH POINT.

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

Section 1. Section 9.8(b) of Article IX of the Charter of the City of High Point as it appears in Section 1 of Chapter 501 of the 1979 Session Laws is amended by adding at the end thereof the following:

"The city council, in carrying out any downtown development project, may accept gifts and donations, may appropriate tax or nontax funds, and may seek and use federal or State grants. So long as it is not inconsistent with the terms of the grant, the city is authorized to use any such grants in such manner as the council determines will best promote the public interest, including, by way of example but not limitation, allowing a private developer to have or use the funds for the construction of parts of the project that will become ultimately the property of the city."

Sec. 2. Section 9.8(a) of Article IX of the Charter of the City of High Point as it appears in Section 1 of Chapter 501 of the 1979 Session Laws is amended by inserting immediately before the period at the end of the section the following:

", and the publicly owned part may be so constructed as to accommodate the construction of private parts above the public parts."

Sec. 3. This act is effective upon ratification.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 25th day of June, 1980.