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Session Laws, 1947
Volume 411, Page 1801   View pdf image (33K)
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WM. PRESTON LANE, JR., GOVERNOR. 1801

(i) To license and regulate the construction, operation and
location of trailers and tourist camps outside the limits of
incorporated towns and cities.

(j) To provide for county advertising, printing and pub-
lishing of all laws, ordinances, resolutions or regulations,
adopted by the County Commissioners and the annual state-
ments of receipts and expenditures of the County; provided,
however, that the said Commissioners shall appoint an
auditor or accountant within thirty days after the close of
the fiscal year to audit the books and accounts of all county
officers collecting, holding or disbursing funds belonging to
the County and shall publish or advertise the report of said
auditor or accountant immediately after its completion to
the extent that the said Commissioners may deem proper.

(k) To provide for proof of all claims against the County
before payment.

(1) To provide for competitive bidding for any county
work and the making and awarding of contracts for the
purchase of materials and supplies in excess of $500 and to
require bonds in connection with said work or contracts,
whenever deemed proper; and if no bids are submitted in
response to any calls therefor, to place the order as in their
discretion they deem best.

(m) To provide the recording and indexing all records in
the office of the Clerk of the Court, Register of Wills and
County Commissioners and other officers to the extent that
such matters are not provided for by general law.

(n) To prevent and remove nuisances; to prevent the in-
troduction of contagious diseases into the County; to approve
the location for the manufacturing of soap and fertilizer;
to approve the location of slaughter houses, packing houses,
and all places which may involve or give rise to unsanitary
conditions or conditions detrimental to health; provided,
however, that nothing herein shall be construed to affect in
any manner any of the powers and duties of the State Board
of Health or any Public General Law relating to the subject
of health.

(o) To provide for grading, paving, regrading, repaving,
curbing, recurbing, or repairing any road or sidewalk now
or hereafter condemned, ceded, opened, widened, extended
or straightened as public property and for levying for the
cost thereof on the assessable basis of the County or provid-
ing for the payment of the cost thereof from the County's
share of the State gasoline tax; and to provide for estab-
lishing the office of County Roads Engineer, and defining
the duties and powers thereof.

 

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