NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1973 SESSION

CHAPTER 1023

HOUSE BILL 1787

AN ACT DELETING FROM THE CHARTER OF THE CITY OF WINSTON-SALEM CERTAIN OUTMODED AND OUTDATED PROVISIONS.

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

Section 1. Section 2A of the Charter of the City of Winston-Salem, being Section 1 of Chapter 11 of the 1965 Session Laws of North Carolina, defining the corporate limits of the City of Winston-Salem by metes and bounds, is hereby repealed. The corporate limits of the City of Winston-Salem shall at all times be as shown on the most recent map officially adopted by the Board of Aldermen of the City of Winston-Salem pursuant to the provisions of G.S. 160A-22. It is the purpose of this amendment to eliminate the requirement that the corporate limits of the City of Winston-Salem be set out by metes and bounds in a local act of the General Assembly, and to permit the boundaries prescribed in a map adopted pursuant to G.S. 160A-22 to become the official boundaries of the City of Winston-Salem.

Sec. 2. Section 8 of the Charter of the City of Winston-Salem, being Section 2 of Chapter 11 of the 1965 Session Laws of North Carolina, is hereby deleted. The City of Winston-Salem is hereby divided into eight wards to be known and designated as North Ward, Northeast Ward, East Ward, Southeast Ward, South Ward, Southwest Ward, West Ward, and Northwest Ward. The boundaries of each of the above named wards shall be as fixed in the most recent map adopted by the Board of Aldermen of the City of Winston-Salem in accordance with the provisions of G.S. 160A-22 and G.S. 160A-23. It is the purpose of this section to eliminate the necessity of the ward boundaries for the City of Winston-Salem being prescribed by metes and bounds in a legislative enactment, and to substitute authority for the Board of Aldermen to fix the boundaries by the adoption of a map as authorized in G.S. 160A-22 and G.S. 160A-23.

Sec. 3. Section 26A of the Charter of the City of Winston-Salem, being Section 4 of Chapter 60 of the Private Laws of 1933, relating to discounts and penalties for early or late tax payments, is hereby repealed.

Sec. 4. Sections 45 through 53 of the Charter of the City of Winston-Salem, being Section 45 of Chapter 232 of the Private Laws of 1927, as amended, relating to the City public schools, is hereby repealed.

Sec. 5. Sections 83 through 107A of the Charter of the City of Winston-Salem, being Article XV of Section 1 of Chapter 232 of the 1927 Private Laws, as amended, relating to the municipal courts, is hereby repealed.

Sec. 6. This act shall become effective upon ratification.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 21st day of March, 1974.