NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1977 SESSION

CHAPTER 816

HOUSE BILL 712

AN ACT TO AMEND THE CHARTER OF THE TOWN OF CARY.

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

Section 1. The Charter of the Town of Cary, as enacted by Section 1 of Chapter 868 of the Session Laws of 1971, is amended as follows:

(a)       Section 3.9(f) of Article III is amended by deleting the words and punctuation "a Town Engineer,";

(b)       Article III is amended by adding at the end a new Section 3.16 reading as follows:

"Sec. 3.16. Terms of commissions, committees and boards. The town council is authorized to fix the terms of members of all commissions, committees and boards of the town regardless of the terms established by General Statute or other law for particular commissions, committees or boards; to appoint the chairman or other presiding officer of each commission, committee or board of the town, regardless of the provisions of any General Statute or other law; and to limit the number of terms which any person may serve on any commission, committee or board of the town."

(c)       Section 6.4 of Article VI is amended by deleting from the second paragraph the words "in a residential zone";

(d)       Section 9.3 of Article IX is amended by rewriting the same to read as follows:

"Sec. 9.3. Underground utilities. In addition to the powers now or hereafter granted to municipalities by law, the town council by ordinance may require that all utility or other pipes, wiring, conduits, cables, and fixtures installed after the adoption of such ordinance within the planning and zoning jurisdiction of the town be installed underground, whether or not the same are installed in public rights-of-way."

(e)       Article X is amended by deleting all of Section 10.1 and by renumbering Section 10.2 as Section 10.1.

Sec. 1½. Chapter 527 of the Session Laws of 1977, as enacted by House Bill 1295, is amended by deleting from the second line of Section 1 and from the third line of Section 2 the word "County" and by inserting in lieu thereof in each instance the words "and Rockingham County".

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

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 29th day of June, 1977.