GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA
SESSION 2011
S 2
SENATE BILL 120
State and Local Government Committee Substitute Adopted 3/22/11
Short Title: New Bern Charter Amendments. |
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February 24, 2011
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
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 office
and he 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 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 he were a member of the board. He 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.