NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1971 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 155

HOUSE BILL 14

 

AN ACT TO AMEND THE CHARTER OF THE TOWN OF COLUMBIA, BEING CHAPTER 423, PRIVATE LAWS OF 1941, BY AMENDING SECTION 23 TO PROVIDE DISBURSEMENT OF FUNDS BY MAYOR OR OTHER DULY AUTHORIZED PERSON, AND COUNTERSIGNED BY THE TOWN CLERK.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

 

Section 1.  The Charter of the Town of Columbia, being Chapter 423, Public-Local Laws of 1941, is hereby amended by rewriting the last sentence of Section 23 thereof to read as follows:  "All moneys belonging to the town government shall be disbursed only on vouchers signed by the mayor and countersigned by the town clerk, but in the event of any emergency where the mayor cannot act, or refuses, or fails to act, in disbursing funds belonging to the Town, then that person serving as a member of the Board of Aldermen, and appointed by majority vote of the Board of Aldermen, shall be authorized to sign vouchers in lieu of the mayor, and countersigned by the Town Clerk."

Sec. 2.  This act shall be in full force and effect from and after its ratification.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 5th day of April, 1971.