1965/66/67 session laws – Ch.30 Sec.9
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CHAPTER 30 AN ACT TO PROVIDE FOR THE REORGANIZATION AND CONSOLI- DATION OF THE EDENTON CITY BOARD OF EDUCATION AND THE CHOWAN COUNTY BOARD OF EDUCATION AND TO CREATE AND ESTABLISH ONE ADMINISTRATIVE BOARD FOR ALL OF THE PUBLIC SCHOOLS IN CHOWAN COUNTY. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:
Title to all property of the City Board of Education and all property of the County Board of Education, both real and personal, of every kind and description, shall be vested in the Interim Edenton-Chowan Board of Education as of the first day of the month following the referendum or election of the voters of Chowan County approving said merger. Thereafter, on January 1, 1971, all of the property, both real and personal, of every kind and description, vested in the Interim Edenton-Chowan Board of Education shall be vested in the Edenton-Chowan Board of Education. The City Board and the County Board shall have full and ample authority prior to the merging of said Boards to execute all such deeds and other writings as may be deemed necessary to vest record title to any such property in the Interim Edenton-Chowan Board of Education. All claims and demands of every kind which the City Board and the County Board may have prior to the merger of said Boards, shall pass and be transferred to the Interim Edenton-Chowan Board of Education, and said Interim Edenton-Chowan Board of Education shall have the same power and authority to enforce said claims and demands as said City Board and County Board would have had in the event of their continuing existence. Any obligations and liabilities of the City Board or County Board existing prior to the merger of the said Boards shall be and become the obligations and liabilities of the Interim Edenton-Chowan Board of Education and thereafter the Edenton-Chowan Board of Education, and such obligations and liabilities may be enforced against said Interim Edenton-Chowan Board of Education, thereafter the Edenton-Chowan Board of Education, to the same extent that they might have been enforced against the City Board or the County Board had they continued in existence. All unexpended taxes collected by the auditor or other proper officer of Chowan County on account of school supplement levies made within the first and fourth townships prior to the merger of said Boards shall be paid by the said Auditor or other proper officer to the treasurer of the Interim Edenton-Chowan Board of Education as soon as is reasonably possible after the merger of said Boards.