1935_public laws_460_8
CHAPTER 459 AN ACT TO PROMOTE MORE SECURE OCCUPANCY OF FARMS AND FARM HOMES, TO CORRECT SOME PRES- ENT FORMS OF FARM TENANCY: TO PROMOTE RURAL REHABILITATION BY PROVIDING FOR THE CON- STRUCTION AND SUPERVISION OF SUBSISTENCE HOMESTEADS AND PLANNED RURAL COMMUNITIES FOR FAMILIES OF LOW INCOMES AND THOSE WHO DESIRE TO ACQUIRE AND LIVE UPON SUBSISTENCE FARMS, AND FOR THE SALE THEREOF ON REASON- ABLE TERMS: AUTHORIZING THE INCORPORATION OF LIMITED DIVIDEND AND/OR NON-DIVIDEND RURAL DEVELOPMENT COMPANIES AND CREATING A STATE BOARD OF RURAL REHABILITATION, FOR THE PURPOSE OF ENCOURAGING, APPROVING, SUP- ERVISING AND REGULATING SUCH ACTIVITIES. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:
The Board is hereby empowered to (a) study rural conditions and farm tenancy throughout the State, to determine in what areas unhealthful and insanitary conditions constitute a menace to health, and reasonable comfort of the citizens of the State; (b) prepare programs for correcting such conditions as may be relieved by the purposes of this act: (c) collect and distribute information relating to rural development; (d) recommend and approve the areas within which or adjacent to which the construction of rural community projects by limited dividend and/or non-dividend companies may be undertaken, and (e) co-operate with local officials and planning commissions or similar bodies in the development of projects they may have under consideration.