AN ACT to authorize the city of goldsboro to repurchase a performing arts facility previously owned by that city.

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

SECTION 1.  Notwithstanding Article 8 of Chapter 143 of the General Statutes, the City of Goldsboro may repurchase, through a financing arrangement or lease‑purchase arrangement, a performing arts facility previously owned by the City that was destroyed by fire and is currently owned by a nonprofit foundation.
SECTION 2.  This act is effective when it becomes law and expires December 31, 2008.
In the General Assembly read three times and ratified this the 10th day of July, 2008.

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		 Beverly E. Perdue
	 President of the Senate

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		 Joe Hackney
	 Speaker of the House of Representatives