NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1969 SESSION

CHAPTER 585

HOUSE BILL 850

AN ACT TO AMEND CHAPTER 185 OF THE PRIVATE LAWS OF 1929, RELATING TO THE TOWN OF VANCEBORO, TO INCREASE FROM $7 TO $15 PER DAY THE SALARIES OF ELECTION OFFICIALS, TO REMOVE THE RESIDENCE REQUIREMENT FOR POLICEMEN, AND TO INCREASE FROM $200 TO $2,000 THE VALUE OF CONTRACTS REQUIRED TO BE LET UPON RECEIPT OF PUBLIC BIDS.

The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

Section 1. Chapter 185 of the Private Laws of 1929 is hereby amended as follows:

(a)       by rewriting the last sentence of Section 10, as amended by Section 1 of Chapter 722 of the Session Laws of 1957, to read as follows: "The Registrar and poll holders shall receive fifteen dollars ($15.00) per day for the time they are engaged in registering voters and holding elections and hearing challenges or such other sum as the Board of Commissioners may fix in accordance with G.S. 160-9".

(b)       by rewriting Section 33 to read as follows: "Sec. 33. That the Board of Commissioners may appoint a chief of police and such policemen as they may deem proper and necessary, not to exceed eight in number, and the said chief of police so appointed shall give a bond with approved sureties in a penal sum to be fixed by the Board, payable to the Town of Vanceboro, conditioned that he will diligently perform all duties imposed upon him by virtue of his office and faithfully pay the Treasurer of said Town all sums of money collected or recovered by him for the use of the Town. The said officers shall hold office for two years subject to removal by the Board of Commissioners at any time for a cause.";

(c)       by rewriting Section 51 thereof to read as follows: "Sec. 51. All work to be done for the Town wherein the total amount for material and labor exceeds the sum of two thousand dollars ($2,000.00) shall be let out on contract to the lowest bidder, after advertising for not less than ten days in a newspaper published in Craven County, or notices published in four public places in the Town. That no work or contract shall be subdivided so as to defeat the operation of this section."

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 All laws and clauses of laws in conflict with this Act are hereby repealed.

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

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 23rd day of May, 1969.