NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1963 SESSION

CHAPTER 98

HOUSE BILL 209

AN ACT TO AMEND CHAPTER 175, SESSION LAWS OF 1945, SO AS TO CHANGE THE REGULAR MEETING OF THE BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS AND TO REQUIRE A FILING FEE FOR CANDIDATES FOR THE OFFICE OF MAYOR AND COMMISSIONER.

The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

Section 1. Section 5 of Chapter 175, Session Laws of 1945, is rewritten to read as follows:

"Sec. 5. Meetings of Board of Commissioners. At 7:30 o'clock P. M. on the second Thursday following a regular municipal election the board of commissioners shall meet at the usual place for holding its meetings and the newly elected members shall assume the duties of office. Thereafter the board of commissioners shall meet on the second Thursday of each month. Special meetings shall be called by the clerk upon the written request of the mayor or two members of the board of commissioners. Any such notice shall state the subject to be considered at the special meeting and no other subject shall be there considered. All meetings of the board of commissioners and of committees thereof shall be open to the public, and the rules of the board of commissioners shall provide that citizens of the town shall have a reasonable opportunity to be heard at any such meetings in regard to any matter considered thereat; but the board of commissioners or a committee thereof may by a three-fifth vote of all the members authorize an executive meeting."

Sec. 2. Section 14, Chapter 175, Session Laws of 1945, is amended by adding at the end of the Section the following:

"Beginning with the regular election for mayor and members of the board of commissioners, to be held in May of 1965, the persons filing the petition as a candidate for mayor or member of the board of commissioners, as required by this Section, shall pay a filing fee of ten dollars ($10.00) to the town clerk at the time the petition is filed, and the town clerk shall deposit said sum in the town's general fund."

Sec. 3. All laws and clauses of laws in conflict with this Act are hereby repealed.

Sec. 4. 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 26th day of March 1963.