1947_session laws_232_2
CHAPTER 231 AN ACT TO AMEND CHAPTER 346 OF THE PUBLIC- LOCAL LAWS OF 1929 ENTITLED AN ACT TO ESTAB- LISH KINSTON ELECTRIC SERVICE DISTRICT. WHEREAS, the City of Kinston is now enlarging its munici- pal power and water plants and expects to have available an abundance of surplus electric current and water for domestic and commercial use, the sale of which will materially enhance the profits from its said plants, which will be for the benefit of the citizens and taxpayers of the said City of Kinston; and WHEREAS, it is deemed advisable to use a portion of the revenue from said plants to develop a larger market for its surplus electric current and water: Now, therefore, The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:
That Chapter 346 of the Public-Local Laws of 1929 entitled An Act to Establish Kinston Electric Service District, shall be, and the same is hereby, amended by inserting between Section 3 and Section 4 thereof a new Section, to be numbered Section 314, as follows: Sec. 3%. The City Council of the City of Kinston shall be and it is hereby authorized and empowered to appropriate annually, from revenue received from its municipal power and water plants, an amount not to exceed the sum of three thousand dollars ($38,000.00), to be used for advertising the facilities of the City of Kinston and in such manner as in the judgment and discretion of the City Council of the City of Kinston will promote and enhance the profits. from its electric light and water plants and be for the benefit of the citizens and taxpayers of the said city, which undertaking is hereby declared to be for a public purpose. The money so appropriated may be expended either directly by the City Council of the City of Kinston or through the facilities of such agency as the said city council may select, and shall be used in such manner as will in the opinion of the said city council best serve the purposes herein set forth.