NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1959 SESSION

CHAPTER 1000

SENATE BILL 493

AN ACT TO AMEND CHAPTER 352 OF THE PRIVATE LAWS OF NORTH CAROLINA, SESSION OF 1899, BEING AN ACT TO AMEND AND CONSOLIDATE THE CHARTER OF THE TOWN OF MONROE, AND TO AMEND CHAPTER 641, SESSION LAWS OF NORTH CAROLINA, 1949, RELATING TO THE CHARTER OF THE CITY OF MONROE.

The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

Section 1. That Chapter 352 of the Private Laws of North Carolina, Session of 1899, be and the same is hereby amended to provide that the offices of the city clerk and the city treasurer shall be separate offices. The city clerk shall be appointed by the governing body of the City of Monroe and shall perform all duties assigned to him from time to time by the governing body of the City of Monroe.

Sec. 2. That the city treasurer shall be appointed by the governing body of the City of Monroe and shall perform all duties assigned to him from time to time by the governing body of the City of Monroe.

Sec. 3. That from and after the effective date of this Act, the City Manager of the City of Monroe shall exercise all of the functions of City Treasurer of the City of Monroe.

Sec. 4. That Chapter 641 of the Session Laws of 1949 be and the same is hereby amended by adding an additional subsection to Section 8 of said Chapter 641, said subsection under Section 8 to be designated as follows:

(8)       Exercise all of the duties of City Treasurer of the City of Monroe.

Sec. 5. That all actions and proceedings heretofore taken by the Board of Aldermen of the City of Monroe in relation to the proposed issuance of six hundred thirty-five thousand dollars ($635,000.00) Natural Gas Revenue Bonds of the City of Monroe are hereby validated and approved; and all official acts heretofore authorized and exercised by the City Manager of Monroe under resolutions by the governing body of said city and imposing upon the city manager the official duties of treasurer of said city are hereby validated and approved.

Sec. 6. All laws and clauses of laws in conflict with this Act are hereby repealed.

Sec. 7. 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 16th day of June, 1959.