NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1963 SESSION

CHAPTER 737

HOUSE BILL 1057

AN ACT TO AMEND THE CHARTER OF THE CITY OF DURHAM, BEING CHAPTER 142, PRIVATE LAWS OF 1921, AS AMENDED, BY AMENDING SECTIONS 21 AND 24 TO AUTHORIZE THE CITY COUNCIL TO APPOINT AN ACTING CITY CLERK AND AN ACTING CITY TREASURER, AND DEFINING THEIR AUTHORITY.

The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

Section 1. The Charter of the City of Durham, being Chapter 142, Private Laws of 1921, as amended, is hereby amended by amending Section 21 thereof by adding an additional sentence at the end of said Section to read as follows:

"The city council is authorized and empowered to appoint or designate a person as acting city clerk to perform the duties of the city clerk during his or her absence or disability, and in the performance of such duties the acting city clerk shall possess all of the legal authority and power of the city clerk."

Sec. 2. The Charter of the City of Durham, being Chapter 142, Private Laws of 1921, as amended, is hereby amended by amending Section 24 thereof by adding an additional sentence at the end of said Section to read as follows:

"The city council is authorized and empowered to appoint or designate a person as acting city treasurer to perform the duties of the city treasurer during his or her absence or disability, and in the performance of such duties the acting city treasurer shall possess all of the legal authority and power of the city treasurer."

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 All laws and clauses of laws in conflict with this Act are hereby repealed.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 6th day of June, 1963.