NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1969 SESSION

CHAPTER 313

HOUSE BILL 482

AN ACT TO AMEND CHAPTER 121, PRIVATE LAWS OF 1931, RELATING TO INITIATIVE, REFERENDUM AND RECALL IN THE CITY OF ASHEVILLE.

The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

Section 1. Chapter 121, Private Laws of 1931, is hereby amended by rewriting the first sentence of Section 83 thereof to read as follows: "Any proposed ordinance may be submitted to the City Council by a petition signed by fifteen percent (15%) of the number of registered voters of the City of Asheville.

Sec. 2. Chapter 121, Private Laws of 1931, is hereby amended by deleting from Section 83, Subsection (b) in line two thereof the words "forty-five", and inserting in lieu thereof the word, "ninety".

Sec. 3. Chapter 121, Private Laws of 1931, is hereby amended by adding at the end of Section 83 thereof the following sentence: "Any question submitted by petition as provided under this Section cannot be resubmitted to referendum by petition within a three-year period from the date of the election at which said question was first voted on."

Sec. 4. Chapter 121, Private Laws of 1931, is hereby amended by deleting from Section 85 thereof, immediately after the word "follows" in line 5, the remaining part of the second sentence and inserting in lieu thereof the following: "a petition, signed by 15% of the number of registered voters of the City of Asheville, demanding an election of a successor of the person sought to be removed, shall be filed with the chairman of the City Board of Elections, and the petition shall contain a general statement of the grounds for which the removal is sought."

Sec. 5. All laws and clauses of laws in conflict with this Act are hereby repealed.

Sec. 6. This Act shall be in full force and effect from and after its ratification.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 28th day of April, 1969.