NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1963 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 690

SENATE BILL 464

 

 

AN ACT TO REVISE AND CONSOLIDATE THE CHARTER OF THE TOWN OF BUNN IN FRANKLIN COUNTY.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

 

Section 1. The Town of Bunn shall continue to be a body corporate and politic under the name of the "Town of Bunn" and shall have and be entitled to all the powers, rights, and privileges, and be subject to the restrictions and liabilities granted and conferred by and arising under the General Statutes relating to municipal corporations.

Sec. 2. The corporate limits of the Town of Bunn shall be as follows:

" 'Beginning in the center of the Louisburg Road (North Carolina State Highway No. 39), which said point is marked by a stake on the East side of said road and a stake on the West side of said road; thence, running from the beginning point, North 84 degrees 30 minutes East 1500 feet to an iron stake; thence South 36 degrees East 3128 feet to an iron stake; thence South 23 degrees West 1804 feet to a point in the center of North Carolina State Highway No. 39, marked by a stake on the East side thereof; thence, running from said point in the center of said North Carolina State Highway No. 39 and along the center line thereof South 35 degrees 30 minutes East 75 feet to a road culvert; thence South 50 degrees West 528.5 feet to an iron stake near a cherry tree; thence North 38 degrees 30 minutes West 400 feet to an iron stake; thence North 31 degrees West 384.5 feet to a point in the center of County Road No. 1719; marked by an iron stake on the East side thereof; thence running from the center of said road, South 59 degrees 30 minutes West 743 feet to a point in the center of said County Road No. 1719, marked by a stake on the East side thereof; thence running from the center of said road, North 36 degrees West 4025 feet, and crossing North Carolina State Highway No. 98, to an iron stake; thence North 51 degrees 30 minutes East 1487 feet to the point of beginning.'

A map of survey of the above-described corporate limits of the Town of Bunn made by Phil R. Inscoe, Registered Land Surveyor, on April 20, 1963, entitled 'Map of Survey made for the Town of Bunn, Showing the Corporate Limits', shall be filed for record in the office of the Register of Deeds of Franklin County."

Sec. 3. That the officers of said corporation shall consist of a mayor and four commissioners and that the following named persons shall fill said offices until 12:00 o'clock Noon on Monday following the last Saturday in July, 1963, or until their successors are duly elected and qualified, namely: J. M. Edwards, Mayor; P. B. Wilson, G. T. White, Lewis A. Debnam and J. L. Adams, Commissioners.

Sec. 4. That an election for mayor and four commissioners shall be held on the last Saturday in July, 1963, under the same rules and regulations prescribed by law for holding municipal elections in this State; that the mayor and four commissioners elected in the election to be held on the last Saturday in July, 1963, shall fill said offices until 12:00 o'clock Noon on Monday following the second Saturday in May, 1965, or until their successors are duly elected and qualified.

That an election for mayor and four commissioners shall be held on the second Saturday in May, 1965, and biennially thereafter on the second Saturday in May of odd-numbered years. That the mayor and said four commissioners shall be elected at large by and from the qualified voters of the town, and all elections held hereunder shall be held in accordance with the same rules and regulations prescribed by law for holding municipal elections in this State.

That the mayor and four commissioners elected in the election provided herein to be held on the last Saturday in July, 1963, shall meet at 12:00 o'clock Noon on Monday following their election and shall take the prescribed oaths of office and enter upon the performance of their official duties as Mayor and Commissioners of the Town of Bunn. The mayor and four commissioners elected at the municipal elections to be held on the second Saturday in May, 1965, and biennially thereafter, shall meet at 12:00 o'clock Noon on Monday following their election and shall take the prescribed oaths of office and enter upon their official duties as Mayor and Commissioners of the Town of Bunn.

Sec. 5. That said commissioners shall have power to pass all ordinances, rules and regulations for the good government of the corporation, not inconsistent with the laws of this State and the United States.

Sec. 6. The commissioners shall have power to levy a tax upon all taxable property within the town, not to exceed the limit set by G. S. 160-402 for general purposes.

Sec. 7. That the commissioners shall have the power to abate all nuisances, and for this purpose may impose fines and penalties necessary to abate the same.

Sec. 8. That the commissioners when organized shall have power to appoint a clerk, a treasurer, a chief of police and other police officers, and all other necessary municipal officers and employees. The treasurer and the chief of police shall each enter into bonds of not less than one thousand dollars ($1,000.00) as may be prescribed by the board of commissioners, with approved surety, before entering upon the discharge of their duties of office. All other municipal officers and employees shall enter into such bond or bonds as the said commissioners shall from time to time direct.

The Chief of Police and other police officers of the Town of Bunn shall have the same authority to make arrests and to execute criminal process within the corporate limits of said Town of Bunn and the territory within one mile beyond the said corporate limits, as is vested by law in a sheriff.

The provisions of Section 160-25 of the General Statutes of North Carolina shall apply to the election of officers of the Town of Bunn in Franklin County, but shall not apply to chief of police, policemen, firemen, or other municipal employees of said town.

Sec. 9. That the Mayor of Bunn shall call the election provided for in this Act, and all of said elections shall be held in accordance with the General Election Laws for Municipalities in this State.

Sec. 10 That the mayor of said town shall have, within the corporate limits thereof, the jurisdiction and powers of any other magistrate in said County of Franklin.

Sec. 11. All penalties shall be paid into the general fund for the benefit of the town.

Sec. 12. All questions arising in the administration of the government of the Town of Bunn and not provided for in this Act, shall be governed by the laws of the State and nothing in this Act shall be deemed as limiting any powers given to municipal corporations by the Constitution and laws of the State of North Carolina.

Sec. 13. Chapter 214 of the Private Laws of 1913 is hereby repealed.

Sec. 14. All laws and clauses of laws relating to or affecting the Town of Bunn, in force when this Act shall take effect, are hereby repealed and superseded to the extent that the same are inconsistent with the provisions of this Act. Insofar as the provisions of this Act are the same in terms or in substance and effect as provisions of law in force when this Act shall take effect, relating to or affecting the Town of Bunn, the provisions of this Act are intended to be not a new enactment but a continuation of such provisions of law, and this Act shall be so construed and applied. Provided, that no provision of this Act shall be construed so as to repeal or modify Chapter 395, Session Laws of 1963, as ratified May 8, 1963.

Sec. 15. 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 June, 1963.