NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1969 SESSION

CHAPTER 383

HOUSE BILL 610

AN ACT TO AMEND SECTIONS 10 AND 22(7) OF THE CHARTER OF THE CITY OF RALEIGH (CHAPTER 1184 OF THE SESSION LAWS OF NORTH CAROLINA, 1949, AS AMENDED).

The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

Section 1. That Section 10 of the Charter of the City of Raleigh entitled "Power and organization of the city council" be amended to read as follows:

(a)       All legislative powers of the City shall be vested in the City Council. The City Council elected as hereinafter provided shall meet at nine-thirty o'clock in the forenoon on the first Monday of June following their election for the purpose of choosing from its members a mayor, who shall hold office during the term for which he was elected a member of the City Council; and for the purpose of choosing from its members a mayor pro tempore, who shall hold his office during the pleasure of the City Council. The meeting shall be presided over by the City Clerk and Treasurer who shall certify to the incumbent mayor the results of the election and cause the same to be entered in the Council minutes. The person receiving a majority of the votes cast for mayor shall be designated the mayor- elect. The person receiving a majority of the votes cast for mayor pro tempore shall be the mayor pro tempore-elect. No other item of business shall be considered at this meeting.

(b)       The City Council-elect elected as hereinafter provided shall meet at ten o'clock in the forenoon on the first day of July following their election, or in the event the first day of July shall fall on a Sunday, the first Monday following, and the members of the City Council whose terms of office then begin shall severally make oath before the City Clerk, a Magistrate, the incumbent Mayor of the City of Raleigh or any Judge of the North Carolina General Court of Justice to perform faithfully the duties of their respective offices. The organization of the City Council shall take place as aforesaid, notwithstanding the absence, death, refusal to serve, or non-election of one or more members; provided that at least four of the persons entitled to be members of the City Council are present and make oath as aforesaid. Any member entitled to make the aforesaid oath who was not present at the time fixed therefore may make oath at any time thereafter.

Sec. 2. That the last proviso of Section 22(7) of the Charter of the City of Raleigh entitled "Tax and license franchises, businesses, trades, etc." be amended to read as follows:

Provided further the additional tax shall be limited to fifty per cent (50%) of the tax originally levied, but in no event less than ten dollars ($10.00). The license years shall begin on the first day of June of each and every year.

Sec. 3. All laws and clauses of laws in conflict herewith are hereby repealed.

Sec. 4. This Act shall become effective upon its ratification.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 1st day of May, 1969.