NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1969 SESSION

CHAPTER 333

HOUSE BILL 620

AN ACT TO AMEND CHAPTER 713 OF THE SESSION LAWS OF 1965, BEING THE CHARTER OF THE CITY OF CHARLOTTE IN MECKLENBURG COUNTY.

The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

Section 1.  Chapter 713, Session Laws of 1965, being the Charter of the City of Charlotte, is hereby amended as follows:

(a)       Section 4.22 is hereby amended by deleting the proviso beginning with the words "provided, no person shall be appointed Fire Chief who has not been a member of the fire department for a period of at least two years immediately prior to such appointment."

(b)       Section 4.61 (13) is hereby amended by adding a new paragraph at the end thereof as follows: "The chief of the Police Department may designate any promotion which he may make to be a probationary promotion, and if the chief shall so designate such a promotion, then the provisions of this subchapter shall not apply in that the chief may, without a hearing, and in his discretion, withdraw the probationary promotion within six (6) months from the time it became effective, and the member so promoted will revert to his non- probationary grade without prejudice."

(c)       Section 9.82 is hereby amended by deleting the words and figures "one thousand dollars ($1,000.00)" each time they appear, and substituting in lieu thereof the words and figures "three thousand dollars ($3,000.00)".

Sec. 2. All laws and clauses of laws in conflict with this Act are hereby repealed.

Sec. 3. This Act shall become effective upon its ratification.

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