NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1961 SESSION

CHAPTER 522

HOUSE BILL 666

AN ACT TO AMEND CHAPTER 144, PUBLIC-LOCAL AND PRIVATE LAWS OF 1937 RELATING TO COMPENSATION AND QUALIFICATIONS OF MEMBERS OF THE CIVIL SERVICE COMMISSION OF THE CITY OF HIGH POINT.

The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

Section 1. That Subsection 3 of Section 3, Chapter 144, Public-Local and Private Laws of 1937, as amended, be rewritten to read as follows:

"Sec. 3. The compensation of each member of the Civil Service Commission shall be five dollars ($5.00) for each meeting of the commission attended and in no case more than ten dollars ($10.00) per month. The secretary shall hold office at the pleasure of the commission and shall receive such salary as may be fixed by the Council of the City of High Point. The members of said commission and the secretary shall possess the general qualifications now required of an elector of the City of High Point, and shall take a similar oath (or affirmation) of office as is now required of city councilmen, to be administered by the Judge of the Municipal Court of the City of High Point. In the event any person appointed as a member of the Civil Service Commission by the Council of the City of High Point shall fail or refuse to qualify by taking the oath (or affirmation) required by this Section within three days after such appointment, the Council of the City of High Point may appoint another member to fill the vacancy created by such failure or refusal to qualify."

Sec. 2. All laws and clauses of laws, including Section 3, Subsection 3, Chapter 144, Public-Local and Private Laws of 1937, in conflict with this Act are hereby repealed.

Sec. 3. This Act shall be in full force and effect from and after ratification.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 26th day of May, 1961.