NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY
1959 SESSION

CHAPTER 601
HOUSE BILL 654

AN ACT TO AUTHORIZE APPROPRIATIONS BY THE BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS OF  CATAWBA COUNTY, FOR INDUSTRIAL DEVELOPMENT AND OTHER PURPOSES.

The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

Section 1. The Board of Commissioners of Catawba County is hereby authorized and empowered to appropriate from nontax revenues for each current year such sums as they may in their discretion determine, to be known as designated as the Catawba County Development Fund. The said board of commissioners may use such amounts as may be appropriated to the said fund for the purposes of encouraging industry to locate in Catawba County, promoting the agricultural development of said county, development of the tourist industry of said county, advertising regarding the said county and otherwise, for the purpose of increasing the population and the taxable property values of said county. The appropriations to the said fund are hereby declared to be for a public purpose and the expenditure of amounts for the purposes aforesaid are hereby declared to be in the public interest and promotive of the public welfare:
Provided, however, that no ABC funds shall be appropriated or used for the aforesaid purposes.
Sec. 2. All laws and clauses of laws in conflict with the provisions of this Act are hereby repealed.
Sec. 3. 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 22nd day of May, 1959.