NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY
1973 SESSION

CHAPTER 228
HOUSE BILL 812

AN ACT TO AMEND ARTICLE 7, PART 1 OF CHAPTER 160A, OF THE GENERAL STATUTES OF NORTH CAROLINA PROVIDING FOR THE ORGANIZATION AND REORGANIZATION OF CITY GOVERNMENT AS IT RELATES TO THE CITY OF CHARLOTTE.

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

Section 1. G.S. 160A-146 is hereby amended by deleting the section in its entirety and rewriting the same to read as follows:
"§ 160A-146.  Council to organize city government. – The council may create, change, abolish and consolidate offices, positions, departments, boards, commissions, and agencies of the city government, establish the length of terms of members of boards, commissions, and agencies of city government, and generally organize and reorganize the city government in order to promote orderly and efficient administration of city affairs, subject to the following limitations:
(1)	The council may not abolish any office, position, department, board, commission, or agency established and required by law;
(2)	The council may not combine offices or confer certain duties on the same officer when such action is specifically forbidden by law;
(3)	The council may not discontinue or assign elsewhere any functions or duties assigned by law to a particular office, position, department, or agency."
Sec. 2. This act shall apply only to the City of Charlotte.
Sec. 3. All laws and clauses of laws in conflict with this act are hereby repealed.
Sec. 4. This act shall become effective upon ratification.
In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 17th day of April, 1973.