GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA

1983 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 458

SENATE BILL 386

 

AN ACT AMENDING THE CHARTER OF THE CITY OF DURHAM.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

 

Section 1.  Section 17 of the Charter of the City of Durham, being Chapter 671, Session Laws of 1975, as amended by Section 1 of Chapter 1249, 1979 Session Laws, is further amended by striking from the second line of subparagraph (1)       of the sixth paragraph of said Section 17 the words and figures "two thousand and five hundred dollars ($2,500)" and inserting in lieu thereof the words and figures "five thousand dollars ($5,000)".

Sec. 2.  Section 69 of the Charter of the City of Durham is amended by striking therefrom the third full sentence and by substituting in lieu thereof the following three new sentences:

"A notice of the public hearing shall be given once a week for two successive calendar weeks in a newspaper having general circulation in the City. The notice shall be published the first time not less than 10 nor more than 25 days before the date fixed for the hearing. In computing such period, the day of publication is not to be included but the day of the hearing shall be included."

Sec. 3.  Section 77(22) of the Charter of the City of Durham is hereby amended by striking the word "eight" appearing in the twelfth line and inserting in lieu thereof the word "nine".

Sec. 4.  Section 84 of the Charter of the City of Durham is hereby amended by adding thereto a new subsection (1) to read as follows:

"(1)      The statutory amounts in G.S. 143-129, relating to the awarding of public contracts, are amended so that the City Council, in awarding public contracts for the purchase of apparatus, supplies, materials, or equipment, is subject to the provisions of G.S. 143-129 only when such purchase requires an estimated expenditure of public funds in an amount equal to or more than twenty thousand dollars ($20,000)."

Sec. 5.  All laws and clauses of laws in conflict with the provisions of this act are hereby repealed.

Sec. 6.  This act is effective upon ratification.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 7th day of June, 1983.