1915_private laws_284_89
CHAPTER 283 AN ACT TO REPEAL THE PRESENT CHARTER OF THE TOWN OF LINCOLNTON AND ALL AMENDMENTS TO SAID CHARTER, AND TO INCORPORATE THE TOWN OF LINCOLNTON, AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: ARTICLE I. Name, Rights, and Liabilities.
The water-works and sewerage department shall embrace all property rights and obligations of the town of Lincolnton in respect to water-works and sewerage, and shall, in so far as practicable, be administered as an entity. To that end all contracts, records, and muniments of title pertaining thereto shall be assembled and carefully preserved, and account shall be kept of its assets, liabilities, receipts, and disbursements separate and distinct from the accounts of any other department or branch of the town government.