NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1973 SESSION

CHAPTER 4

HOUSE BILL 16

AN ACT TO REVISE AND REWRITE THE CHARTER OF THE TOWN OF LEGGETT IN EDGECOMBE COUNTY.

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

Section 1.  The Charter of the Town of Leggett is hereby revised and rewritten and the Town of Leggett in Edgecombe County shall continue to be a body corporate and politic and shall have all municipal powers, functions, rights, privileges and immunities conferred upon municipal corporations by the Constitution and laws of North Carolina.

Sec. 2. The corporate limits shall embrace all the territory within one-half a mile radius from the center of the intersection of a Highway No. 97 and Highway No. 44 in said town.

Sec. 3. The town shall be governed by a mayor and a board of commissioners who shall be elected from the town at large for terms of two years. The powers and duties of the mayor shall be those conferred by law, together with such powers and duties as the board of commissioners may confer upon him pursuant to law. The government and general management of the town shall be vested in the board of commissioners.

Sec. 4. Until the next regular municipal election to be held in November 1973, the following persons shall constitute the board of commissioners: Lawrence Gully, Nina Fountain and Charles Corbett. Junius H. Koonce shall serve as mayor until the November 1973 election.

Sec. 5. The elections in the town shall be nonpartisan and decided by a simple plurality, and shall be held and conducted by the Edgecombe County Board of Elections in accordance with municipal election laws in Chapter 163 of the General Statutes.

Sec. 6. Chapter 113, Private Laws of 1925, is hereby repealed, and all other laws and clauses of laws in conflict with this act are hereby repealed to the extent of such conflict.

Sec. 7. This act is effective upon ratification.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 31st day of January, 1973.