S.L. 1969-916

1969 SESSION

CHAPTER 916

HOUSE BILL 1150

AN ACT TO AMEND THE CHARTER OF THE CITY OF CHARLOTTE TO ENLARGE THE VOTING POWERS OF THE MAYOR.

The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

Section 1. Chapter 713 of the Session Laws of 1965, known as the Charter of the City of Charlotte, is hereby amended by rewriting paragraph (b) of Section 3.23 of said Charter, to read as follows:

(b) Its meetings shall be public and the mayor, who shall be the official head of the city, shall preside, if present, but shall have no vote except in case of a tie. Four affirmative votes of the council members, or three of such affirmative votes, together with the affirmative vote of the mayor, in case of a tie vote, shall be required for the passage of any motion, resolution or ordinance. Motions, resolutions and ordinances granting special franchises and special privileges must be voted on and passed at not less than two regular meetings of the City Council. Except as provided in this Section, motions, resolutions and ordinances will be deemed adopted if passed upon one reading. Provided: as to ordinances, unless they are approved by at least six members of the council, the mayor shall have the power to provide for a period of additional deliberation by postponing the passage of the ordinance until the next regular or special meeting of the council. An ordinance postponed for additional deliberation by the mayor shall automatically be on the agenda at the next regular or special meeting of the council, but shall not become effective until reapproved by the council with at least five members voting in the affirmative at such regular or special meeting of the council. In the absence of the mayor, the mayor pro tempore shall preside, but shall not have postponement power, and shall only vote when so presiding as herein provided for the mayor; and in the absence of both, a chairman pro tempore shall be chosen to preside at such meeting, and, when so presiding, he shall have the right to vote upon all questions, but shall have no additional vote in case of a tie. All final votes of the City Council involving the expenditure of three thousand dollars ($3,000.00) or more shall be by yeas and nays and shall be entered upon the records."

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 All laws and clauses of laws in conflict with this Act are repealed.

Sec. 3. This Act shall take effect upon its ratification.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 19th day of June, 1969.