GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA

SESSION 1997

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SENATE BILL 579
State Government, Local Government, and Personnel Committee Substitute Adopted 4/23/97

Short Title:  Lenoir Charter.	(Local)

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April 1, 1997

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT TO AMEND THE CHARTER OF THE CITY OF LENOIR TO ALLOW  SALARY INCREASES FOR THE CITY COUNCIL AND THE MAYOR AND TO ALLOW THE MAYOR TO BE ELECTED FOR A TERM OF FOUR YEARS.
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
Section 1.  Notwithstanding Section 2.9 of the Charter of the City of Lenoir, being Chapter 118 of the 1977 Session Laws, the city council may increase the salaries of the mayor and the council members by ordinance adopted no less than 30 days after the 1997 municipal elections are held.  The increase may go into effect immediately.  Any subsequent changes to the salary of the mayor and members of the council shall be made in accordance with G.S. 160A-64, except that they may become effective only at the organizational meeting following a regular municipal election.
Section 2.   Effective with the 1999 municipal election, Section 3.2 of the Charter of the City of Lenoir, being Chapter 118 of the 1977 Session Laws, reads as rewritten:
"Sec. 3.2.  Election of the mayor.  At the regular municipal election in 1999, and quadrennially thereafter, there shall be elected a mayor to serve a term of four years.  The mayor shall be elected by all the voters of the city voting at large."
Section 3.  This act is effective when it becomes law.