§ 77-76. Filing and publication of joint ordinances.
§77‑76. Filing and publication of joint ordinances.
(a) A copy of the jointresolution creating the Commission and of any joint resolution amending orrepealing the joint resolution creating the Commission shall be filed with theExecutive Director of the Wildlife Commission. When the Executive Directorreceives resolutions that are in substance identical from all three counties concerned, the Executive Director shall within 10 days so certify and distribute a certified single resolution text to the following:
(1) The Secretary ofState;
(2) The clerk to thegoverning board of each of the three counties;
(3) The clerks ofSuperior Court of Lincoln, Mecklenburg, and Gaston Counties. Upon request,the Executive Director also shall send a certified single copy of any and allapplicable joint resolutions to the chairman of the Commission; and
(4) A newspaper ofgeneral circulation in the three counties.
(b) Unless a jointresolution specifies a later date, it shall take effect when the ExecutiveDirector's certified text has been submitted to the Secretary of State forfiling. Certifications of the Executive Director under the seal of theCommission as to the text or amended text of any joint resolution and of thedate or dates of submission to the Secretary of State shall be admissible inevidence in any court. Certifications by any clerk of superior court of thetext of any certified resolution filed with him by the Executive Director is admissible in evidence and the Executive Director's submission of the resolution for filing to the clerk shall constitute prima facie evidence thatthat resolution was on the date of submission also submitted for filing withthe Secretary of State. Except for the certificate of a clerk as to receiptand date of submission, no evidence may be admitted in court concerning thesubmission of the certified text of any resolution by the Executive Directorto any person other than the Secretary of State. (1997‑257, s. 7.)