GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA
SESSION 2011
SESSION LAW 2011-101
SENATE BILL 120
AN ACT amending the charter of the city of new bern relating to the mayor and mayor pro tem.
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
SECTION 1. Section 6 of the Charter of the City of New Bern, being Chapter 1281 of the 1957 Session Laws, as amended by Chapter 266 of the 1983 Session Laws, Section 4 of Chapter 64 of the 1985 Session Laws, and Section 1 of S.L. 2000-42, reads as rewritten:
"Sec. 6. Mayor and Mayor Pro Tem. At its first meeting
in the month of December the board of aldermen shall choose one of its members
as mayor pro tem to serve for a term of one year. The mayor pro tem shall act
as mayor whenever the mayor shall be absent from the city or be prevented by
sickness or other cause from attending to the duties of his the office
and he the mayor pro tem shall possess all the rights and powers
of the mayor during the continuance of such vacancy, absence or disability. The
mayor shall preside at meetings of the board of aldermen and shall exercise
such other powers and perform such other duties as are or may be conferred and
imposed upon him the mayor by the general laws of North Carolina,
by this Charter and the ordinances of the city. The Mayor mayor shall
have the right to vote on a any question before the board of aldermen
only in the case of a tie.aldermen and shall do so as if the mayor were
a member of the board. He The mayor shall be recognized as
the head of the city government for all ceremonial purposes, by the courts for
serving civil processes, and by the Governor for purposes of military law. For
the purposes of Sections 8, 9, and 10 of this Charter, the mayor shall be
considered to be an elected member of the board of aldermen."
SECTION 2. This act is effective when it becomes law.
In the General Assembly read three times and ratified this the 1st day of June, 2011.
s/ Walter H. Dalton
President of the Senate
s/ Thom Tillis
Speaker of the House of Representatives