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<br />Questions arose concerning the Dog Pounds, Dr, Garvin stated that the
<br />county should be prepared to make certain improvements in the existing pounds
<br />or to construct a new pound as the demand for such a facility was already
<br />being made by certain citizens.
<br />Dr, Garvin advised the Board that the General Assembly had enacted a bill
<br />that would require each county in the state to have a Tocal Health Department,
<br />He th®n cited certain provisions of C,S, 130-11}.
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<br />Department see pa es 78 g Y dg et for the Local Health
<br />6 in Commissioners Docket Bock Number 8,)
<br />There being no further business to come before the Board said meeting was
<br />adfourned to meet again on Thursday, July 12, 1973, at 7:30 o~olock p, m, in
<br />the District Courtroom.
<br />C, Norman 4lalker, Chairman
<br />Betty June Hayes, Clerk
<br />MINU'PES OF THE ORANGE COUNTX
<br />BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS
<br />July 12, 1973
<br />The Orange County Board of Commissioners met on Thursday, July l2, 1973,
<br />at 7:30 o~clock p,m, in the District Courtroom of the Courthouse in Hillsborough.
<br />The purpose of this meting was to allow W. Russell Wright, owner of a mobile
<br />home park on Highway tr86 in Chapel Hill, to present hie opposition to the
<br />county s adopted policy of taxing some mobile homes as real estate, and to
<br />continue the 1973-197!} budget hearings.
<br />Members Present: Chairman C. Norman Walker and Commissioners Henry S.
<br />P Walker, Flora Garrett and Richard E. Whitted,
<br />~_._. Members Absent: None.
<br />The'County Administrator, S, M, Gattis, the County Attorney, L. M,
<br />Cheshire, the Tax Supervisor, Bill Laws, and the Clerk to the Board, Batty
<br />June Hayes, were also present.
<br />Chairman Walker recognized W, Russell Wright, Mr, Wright had reaueatad
<br />that the Board grant him time to register his opposition to the assessment
<br />placed on his mobile home. Mr, Wright stated that he felt this change in
<br />taxing assessment was the latest move taken by the Board to drive mobile
<br />home owners from the county, The Board assured Mr, Wright that this was not
<br />their inter_tion, however, the county had a rule which cited that a mobile
<br />home that is connected to a water line, septic tank, and electricity is
<br />permanently attached to the real estate and, therefore, become real property,
<br />It was stated that the county makes an exception for the mobile homes whose
<br />occupants rents park space, This policy wes adopted because the contract
<br />between the mobile home owner and the park owner clearly assumes that the
<br />mobile home unit will be eventually moved from the site, and thus the county
<br />considers mobile home unite on a rented lot as personal property not real
<br />estate, P$r, Wright argued that the distinction between the two types of units
<br />should be based on whether or not the mobile home is placed on a permanent
<br />foundation or whether or not it retains its portability, In support of hie
<br />argument Ms, Wright stated that mobile liomea are personal property and that
<br />they must be registered with the Department or Motor Vehicles. He stated that
<br />the National Electrical Code, the State Regulations for Mobile Homes, and the
<br />BluebooY. of Trailers, Campers and Mobile Homes, all treat mobile homes as a
<br />nonpermanent unit, and that he did, therefor®, contend that Orange County had
<br />_. no legal right to tax hie property as real estate. The Board requested the
<br />County Attorney to further investigate the General Statutes relative to this
<br />matter and to file with them, at a later date, a written report of his findings,
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