GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA

SESSION 1997

 

 

SESSION LAW 1998-115

SENATE BILL 1273

 

 

AN ACT TO CONFORM TO GENERAL LAW THE MANNER OF APPOINTMENT OF THE TOWN ATTORNEY OF KERNERSVILLE.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

 

Section 1.  Section 14 of the Charter of the Town of Kernersville, being Chapter 381 of the Session Laws of 1989, reads as rewritten:

"Sec. 14.  Town Attorney.  The Board of Aldermen at their first meeting after each election, shall appoint a Town Attorney who shall be an Attorney at Law licensed to practice in the State of North Carolina and who need not be a resident of the Town of Kernersville at the time of his appointment or thereafter.  The Town Attorney shall be the chief legal advisor of and Attorney for the Town and he shall perform such duties as are imposed upon the chief legal officers of municipalities by law and perform such other duties of a legal nature as the Board of Aldermen may require.  He shall receive such compensation as the Board of Aldermen may from time to time determine."

Section 2.  This act is effective when it becomes law.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified this the 25th day of August, 1998.

s/   Marc Basnight

President Pro Tempore of the Senate

 

s/   Harold J. Brubaker

Speaker of the House of Representatives