The board of county commissioners is hereby authorized, in its discretion, not mandatorily, to levy and collect a tax on all the assessable property in the county, in each year a sum to be determined by the board of county commissioners, to be paid by the county treasurer to such private nonprofit organizations whose objectives are to promote the health, education, public welfare and community betterment of the county in the respective amounts set up by the board of county commissioners in the annual budget for the county.
(1955, Chapter 417, § 1; 1969, Chapter 511, § 1)