NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1959 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 449

HOUSE BILL 648

 

 

AN ACT AUTHORIZING THE BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS OF MECKLENBURG COUNTY TO ADOPT BY RESOLUTION THE COUNTY MANAGER FORM OF GOVERNMENT.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

 

Section 1. The Board of County Commissioners of Mecklenburg County is hereby authorized and empowered to adopt by resolution the county manager form of government as set forth in Article 3 of Chapter 153 of the General Statutes. The resolution providing for the county manager form of government may be adopted by said board in any odd-numbered year and shall become effective in December of the following even-numbered year when the new board of county commissioners are sworn in and take office as hereinafter provided.

Sec. 2. At the general election following the adoption of the resolution providing for the county manager form of government, there shall be elected five members for the Board of County Commissioners of Mecklenburg County. The board of county commissioners so elected at said general election shall be authorized and empowered to appoint a county manager and to fix his salary. The said board of county commissioners shall also appoint from their number one person to serve as Chairman of the Board of County Commissioners of Mecklenburg County. Each member of said board of county commissioners shall receive for his services the sum of twelve hundred dollars ($1200.00) per annum, payable in twelve (12) equal monthly installments. The chairman shall be paid an additional six hundred dollars ($600.00) per annum, payable in the same manner.

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 All laws and clauses of laws in conflict with this Act are hereby repealed.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 5th day of May, 1959.