GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA
SESSION 1999
SESSION LAW 2000-42
AN ACT TO MAKE CHANGES IN THE CHARTER OF THE CITY OF NEW BERN RELATING TO THE MAYOR AND MAYOR PRO TEM.
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
Section 1. Section 6 of the Charter of the City of New Bern, being Chapter 1281 of the 1957 Session Laws, as amended by Chapter 266 of the 1983 Session Laws and Section 4 of Chapter 64 of the 1985 Session Laws, reads as rewritten:
"Sec. 6. Mayor and Mayor Pro Tem. At its
first meeting in the month of July following a regular municipal election December
the board of aldermen shall choose one of its members as mayor pro tem. tem
to serve for a term of one year. The mayor pro tem shall act as mayor
whenever the mayor shall be absent from the city or be prevented by sickness or
other cause from attending to the duties of his office and he shall possess all
the rights and powers of the mayor during the continuance of such vacancy,
absence or disability. The mayor shall preside at meetings of the board
of aldermen and shall exercise such other powers and perform such other duties
as are or may be conferred and imposed upon him by the general laws of North
Carolina, by this Charter and the ordinances of the city. The Mayor shall
have the right to vote on any a question before the board of aldermen,
and shall do so as if he were a member of the board. aldermen only in
the case of a tie. He shall be recognized as the head of the city
government for all ceremonial purposes, by the courts for serving civil
processes, and by the Governor for purposes of military law. For the
purposes of Sections 8, 9, and 10 of this act, the mayor shall be considered to
be an elected member of the board of aldermen."
Section 2. Section 19 of the Charter of the City of New Bern, being Chapter 1281 of the 1957 Session Laws, as amended by Section 10 of Chapter 1111 of the 1961 Session Laws, reads as rewritten:
"Sec. 19. Eligibility of Candidates for Mayor; One
Year Residence and Certain Other Qualifications Required; No Third
Term in Succession. Required. That no person shall be eligible as
mayor unless he shall be a qualified voter for a member of the General Assembly
of this State, and shall have been a resident of the City of New Bern for
thirty (30) days immediately preceding his election,
and no person who has been elected mayor for two full terms shall be eligible
as his own immediate successor. election."
Section 3. This act is effective when it becomes law.
In the General Assembly read three times and ratified this the 30th day of June, 2000.
s/ Marc Basnight
President Pro Tempore of the Senate
s/ James B. Black
Speaker of the House of Representatives