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The joint board to be appointed by the governing bodies of the said cities and counties shall be appointed as follows:
Each municipality shall be entitled to one representative on said board and that representative shall be appointed biennially by a majority of the governing body of said municipality, at the first regular meeting in July. Said representative shall hold office from his appointment until the first regular meeting of the governing body in the second July thereafter, when his successor shall be appointed. Only a city or cities contributing an equal amount to the establishment of an airport shall have a representative on the board, unless the city and county in which it is located shall agree among themselves as to a different formula for raising the fifty per cent (50%) of the total cost which each county and the city located therein must bear in the total cost, in which event said municipality shall be entitled to one representative on said joint board. Each county shall be entitled to have one representative on said board, and that representative shall be appointed biennially by a majority of the board of county commissioners of said county, at the first regular meeting in July. Said representative shall hold office from his appointment until the first regular meeting of the board of county commissioners in the second July thereafter, when his successor shall be appointed. Only a county which contributes an equal amount to the establishment of such an airport shall be entitled to have representation on said board, unless the county and the city located therein shall agree on a different formula for raising its fifty per cent (50%) in which event said county shall be entitled to be represented on said board. It being the intention of this section to provide representation on said board for the city and the county in which it is located on said board in event the city and county in which it is located shall pay fifty per cent (50%) of the total cost of establishing such airport. The said board so appointed by the governing bodies of the cities and counties, shall be known as the “Aeronautics Authority of the City of Henderson, City of Oxford, County of Granville and County of Vance.” Upon the occurrence of any vacancy on said authority, said vacancy shall be filled within sixty (60) days after notice thereof at a regular, or special meeting called for that purpose, meeting of the governing body of the governmental unit which has the vacancy within its representation. Within thirty (30) days after the ratification of this Act the governing bodies of each of said cities and counties may appoint its representatives on said board to hold office until his successor shall be appointed in the manner hereinbefore set out; provided however, that the representative first so appointed by each municipality shall hold office from his appointment until the following July, at which time his successor shall be appointed as hereinbefore set out, and provided further that each of the representatives first so appointed by each of said counties shall hold office from his appointment until the second July thereafter, at which time his successor shall be appointed in the manner hereinbefore set forth.
(Session Laws 1945, Ch. 451, § 7)
The board so appointed by the governing bodies of said cities and counties shall act in an administrative capacity and shall be vested with the authority to establish, construct, control, lease, maintain, improve, repair, operate and regulate the joint airport or landing field. It shall have complete authority over any airport or landing field jointly acquired by the several governmental bodies represented on said board. Provided that the said board or the individual members thereof shall have no authority to pledge the credit of any of said governmental units. The said board shall have authority to deal with the Civil Aeronautics Authority of the United States Government and any other representative of the Federal Government relative to the grading, constructing, equipping, improving, repairing, maintaining and operating of airports or landing fields established under the authority of this Act. A majority of the board shall control its decisions. At the first meeting of the board, and annually thereafter it shall select a chairman from among its members. Each member of said board, including the chairman, shall have one vote. The said authority shall meet at such time and such place as the chairman of the authority shall designate. Or upon failure of said chairman to select a time or place at such time and place as shall be requested in writing by two or more members of the authority. The members of said board, who are fulltime employees of either of said governing boards shall serve without compensation other than actual expenses. Members of said board who are not fulltime employees of any of the governing bodies may be allowed compensation, not to exceed ten dollars ($10.00) per day for days actually spent in the performance of their duties as members of the authority. The members of the authority shall be empowered to employ a secretary for said board at such salary as may be agreed upon by the various governing bodies. The members of said authority shall take the oath of office to be administered by the clerk of the superior court in the county in which the member of the authority resides. Members of said authority shall not be personally liable in any manner for their acts as members of the authority, except for misfeasance or malfeasance. Said authority shall have the right and is empowered to expend such funds as are appropriated from time to time to the said governmental units jointly or severally for joint airport purposes and is empowered to enter into contracts and pledge the credit of the authority to the extent of moneys appropriated by said governmental units for joint airport purposes.
(Session Laws 1945, Ch. 451, § 8)
Statutory reference:
Powers and duties of joint board, see G.S. §§ 63-53 and 63-56
Editor's note:
Article XIII consisted of Section 43. Such section was derived from G.S. § 160-293.1, which no longer exists. G.S. § 160A-217, which addresses petitions for street improvements, contains a Local Modification for the City of Oxford: Session Laws 1993, c. 240 wherein the Board of Commissioners may order sidewalk improvements, and may assess adjoining land owners in keeping with applicable assessment statutes according to one or more of the assessment bases as set forth in Article 10 Chapter 160A without the necessity of a petition upon finding by the Board as a fact that the sidewalk improvement project as proposed is necessary for public safety.