NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1975 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 156

SENATE BILL 451

 

 

AN ACT TO PERMIT CITIES TO INCORPORATE EXISTING LOCAL ACTS INTO THEIR CHARTERS, IN ORDER TO MAKE THOSE CHARTERS CURRENT, ACCURATE, AND COMPREHENSIVE.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

 

Section 1.  G.S. Chapter 160A is amended by adding thereto a new section to read as follows:

"Incorporation of local acts into charter. — (a) A city may from time to time require the city attorney to present to the council any local acts relating to the property, affairs, and government of the city and not part of the city's charter which the city attorney recommends be incorporated into the charter. In his recommendations, the city attorney may include suggestions for renumbering or rearranging the provisions of the charter and other local acts, for providing catch lines, and for any other modifications in arrangement or form that do not change the provisions themselves of the charter or local acts and that may be necessary to effect an orderly incorporation of local acts into the charter.

(b)        After considering the recommendations of the attorney, the council may by ordinance direct the incorporation of any such local acts into the charter.

(c)        For purposes of this section, 'charter' means that local act of the General Assembly or action of the Municipal Board of Control incorporating a city or a later local act that includes provisions expressly denominated the city's 'charter', plus any other local acts inserted therein pursuant to this section or a comparable provision of a local act."

Sec. 2.  This act shall become effective upon ratification.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 21st day of April, 1975.