Thursday. July 25, 1935
Government Institute
Gives Summary of New
Laws Affecting Surry
ONLY LOCAL LAWS
Large Number Passed
Which Apply To, Sur
ry Citizens
VERY IMPORTANT
Continuing a practice inaugurated
in 1933, The Institute of Govern
ment, presents herewith, for the
convenience of local officials and the
press, a summary of local legisla
tion affecting Surry county, its
cities, towns, sub-divisions and citi
• zens. Of coursjs, many general laws
also affect the County, but space
does not permit these to be sum
marized here. A summary of these
general State-wide laws will be found
in the May-June issue of Popular I
Government, the Institute's maga
zine. Only local laws, and general
laws from which the County or some
part of the County is specifically ex
cepted, are mentioned. No attempt
is made to cover bills introduced
which never became law.
n. LAWS AFFECTING THE
ENTIRE COUNTY.
A. Tax Law.
Chapter 160, Public-Local Laws,
validates all tax sales held by the
County and cities and towns within
the County, which were held on
days other than those provided for
v by law. The Chapter, also pro
vides for the issuance of alias sum
mons in all tax actions and proceed
ings where service has not been ob
tained. The Chapter extends to
December 1, 1935 the time in which
to institute proceedings on tax sales
certificates for 1933 and prior years'
taxes.
Chapter 158, Public-Local Laws,
authorized the County Commission
* ers to adjust, fund and refund some
$1,350,000 in outstanding bonds. Re
funding bonds to bear an interest
rate of not more than 4 1-2 per
cent. The Chapter directs a tax
levy for debt service sufficient to
yield $90,000 annually, and specifies
that the remainder after paying in
terest shall be put into a sinking
fund in order to pay the bonds at
maturity. ✓
Chapter 423, Public-Local laws,
creates the office of County Tax Col
lector and directs the County Com
missioners to designate the Collec
tor before the first Monday in
November 1936, for a four year term
subject to removal for cause by the
Commissioners with the approval of
the resident Judge. The Commis
sioners are to fix the bond of the
Collector. All taxes in the hands of
the Sheriff are to be turned over
to the Collector, and all duties im-
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posed upon the Sheriff as Tax Col
lector shall be transferred to the
Collector. The Chapter requires the
Commissioners to furnish assistants
in order to maintain branch offices
in Mount Airy and Elkin at salaries
not exceeding $75 per month in
Mount Airy and not more than $45
per month in Elkin. The Mount Airy
office to be kept open at least five
days per week and the Elkin office
at least three. The Chapter fixes
the Collector's salary at $2,000 per
year, and provides that, beginning
the first Mondky in December 1936,
the salary of the Sheriff shall be
$2,000 per year plus fees as fixed by
law.
B. Other Laws.
Chapter 161, Public-Local Laws,
provides that the County Accountant
shall also perform the duties of
purchasing agent, tax supervisor and
bookkeeeper, and fixes the bond of
the corpbined office at SIO,OOO. The
Chapter also authorizes the Com
missioners to designate a bank or
banks as County Treasurer.
House Bill 1068 authorizes the
Commissioners to borrow money at
not exceeding an interest rate of
4 1-2 per cent in order to pay the
difference necessary to* secure larger
school buildings in exchange for
present ouildings. Such exchange
must* be approved by the County
Board of Education, and title to
property received in exchange shall
be taken in the name of the Board
of Education. The amount borrowed
shall not exceed $50,000. The Chap
ter provides that the buildings may
be used as a branch of any State
Educational Institution, and the
money spent for equipment as well
as for buildings.
Chapter 458, Public Laws, author
izes the State School Commission to
pay up to S6OO each for children in
jured or killed in school bus acci
dents in Surry County during the
present closing school year, and pro
vides that if the State School Com
mission does not pay for such in
juries, the County Commissioners
may pay the same or any part there
of.
Chapter 246, Public Laws, sets up
the following terms of Superior
Court in Surry County: 2nd Monday
before Ist Monday in March, 2
weeks for criminal and civil cases;
7th Monday after Ist Monday in
March, 2 weeks criminal and civil;
Bth Monday before Ist Monday in
September, 2 weeks civil; 4th Mon
day after Ist Monday in September,
criminal only; and sth Monday after
Ist Monday in September, civil only.
House Bill 613 puts a two year
closed season on deer, wild turkey,
and ringnecked pheasants in Alle
ghany, Wilkes, Surry and Yadkin
counties, and prescribes a penalty of
SIOO to SIOOO or 60 days to 2 years
for violation. The bill also fixes the
penalty of $5-$25 or not over 30
days for allowing dogs to chase deer
or other game in the Roaring Gap
and Mitchell River Reservations.
Finally, in Alleghany, Surry and
Wilkes counties, fishing, except in
the Yadkin river, with seines, nets,
traps or dynamite, or the placing of
sawaust in streams is prohibited un
der penalty of fine of SIOO to SSOO
or 60 days to one year.
Chapter 296, Public Laws, appoints
O. C. Hauser, Wesley Scott, W. S.
Comer, P. W. Graham, W. A. Jack
son and Joe Hall as members of the
County Board of Education, each
for terms of two years.
Chapter 310, Public Laws, as
amended by Chapter 429, Public
Laws, transfers Mrs. Annie J. Nor
man from Class B to Class A on the
Confederate Pension Roll.
Chapter 64, Public Laws, author
izes cities and towns, and Chapter
65, Public Laws, authorizes counties,
to enter into contracts with public
or private hospitals, for period up
to 30 years, for medical care and
hospitalization of the sick and af
flicted poor of the unit, provided the
contract does not call for an an
nual payment of more than SIO,OOO
by any one unit. Surry County is
THE ELKIN TRIBUNE, ELKIN, NORTH CAROLINA
excepted from the provisions of both
i of these Chapters, but no reference
' is made to cities and towns in Sur
ry County under Chapter 64:
Surry County is also excepted
■ fiom the provisions of two other
general laws. (1). Chapter 457,
Public Laws, which prohibits the
placing of trash, refuse or scrapped
automobiles within one-hundred and
j fifty-yards of a hard-surface high-
I way, outside of an Incorporated
town, unless such trash, etc., is hid
den from the view of persons using
the highway; (2). Chapter 379,
Public Laws, which started out to
prescribe a uniform schedule of fees
to be charged by the Clerks of Su
perior Court, and which ended by
prescribing a uniform schedule for
slightly less than half the State, as
Surry and some fifty odd other
counties were excepted from its pro
visions.
11. LAWS AFFECTING CITIES
AND TOWNS IN SURRY COUNTY.
A. Elkin.
Chapter 67, Private Laws, author
izes the town to issue $528,250 in re
funding bonds, under the provisions
of the Local Government and Muni
cipal Finance Acts, to be issued for
outstanding principal and interest
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accrued to December 1, 1934. The
Chapter validates the old debts and
authorizes the levy of taxes to pay
the debt service on the funding and
refunding bonds,
House Bill 1298 authorizes the
Town to accept bonds in payment of
past due taxes and all street assess
ments, and validates all such acts
in the past. The bill limits the Town
f ax rate, exclusively of special street
and sidewalk assessments, to $1.60
on the SIOO of property valuation.
Chapter 190, Private Laws, author
izes the Commissioners to accept
title to property in lieu of cash pay
ment of taxes and paving assess
ments when they deem the same
equivalent to the value of the pro
perty. The Chapter authorizes the
Commissioners to sell or lease such
property on terms ccnsideied to the
Town's best interes'o.
Sixty years ago a boy stole a wa
termelon from an Indiana farmer.
He recently sent the farmer's daugh
ter sl, saying: "I'm on my way to
heaven, but that melon is blocking
my way." This is perhaps the first
instance on record in which pride
in getting away with a watermelon
was not lifelong.
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