NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1965 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 227

SENATE BILL 149

 

 

AN ACT TO AMEND CHAPTER 121 OF THE PRIVATE LAWS OF 1931 RELATIVE TO THE CHARTER OF THE CITY OF ASHEVILLE.

 

WHEREAS, the City of Asheville has been governed by Ordinances, which were last published in bound form in 1945; and

WHEREAS, a number of said Ordinances have become obsolete or in need of revision, and the City Council is now in the process of revising and consolidating the present existing Ordinances of the City of Asheville, the same to be printed in the form of a loose leaf binder, along with the City Charter and other legislative Acts and Ordinances pertaining to the City of Asheville, which loose leaf form will facilitate the further development, expansion, revision and alteration of said Ordinances, from time to time, which new Code will be known as the Code of Ordinances, City of Asheville, North Carolina; and

WHEREAS, the present Charter of the City of Asheville requires that all Ordinances be published in the newspaper having the largest circulation in the City of Asheville; and

WHEREAS, the expense of publication and the further expense in time and the employment of secretarial help in recording said Ordinances would be very high, and the great majority of said Ordinances are simply being re-enacted and carried forward from the 1945 Codification of the Asheville City Code: Now, therefore,

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

 

Section 1. Chapter 121 of the Private Laws of 1931, as amended by Chapter 186 of the same Session, is hereby amended by inserting two new Sections after Section 17A, said new Sections to be known as Sections 17B and 17C and to read as follows:

"Sec. 17B. Section 17A shall not apply to Ordinance passed on the 25th day of March, 1965, by the City Council of the City of Asheville and known as 'AN ORDINANCE ADOPTING AND ENACTING A NEW CODE OF ORDINANCES OF THE CITY OF ASHEVILLE, NORTH CAROLINA, ESTABLISHING THE SAME; PROVIDING FOR THE REPEAL OF CERTAIN ORDINANCES NOT INCLUDED THEREIN, EXCEPT AS HEREIN EXPRESSLY PROVIDED; PROVIDING FOR THE EFFECTIVE DATE OF SUCH CODE AND A PENALTY FOR THE VIOLATION THEREOF; AND PROVIDING FOR THE MANNER OF AMENDING SUCH CODE; AND PROVIDING WHEN THIS ORDINANCE SHALL BECOME EFFECTIVE'.

"Sec. 17C. In lieu of complying with Section 17 of Chapter 121 of the Private Laws of 1931 the printed book known as CODE OF ORDINANCES, CITY OF ASHEVILLE, NORTH CAROLINA, shall be deposited in the office of the Clerk of the City of Asheville to be kept for public inspection, and said book when deposited shall have the same validity as if the provisions of Section 17 had been complied with."

Sec. 2. The CODE OF ORDINANCES, CITY OF ASHEVILLE, NORTH CAROLINA in lieu of complying with Section 17A of Chapter 121 of the Private Laws of 1931, shall be deposited for public inspection on the desk in the office of the City Clerk of the City of Asheville for a period of thirty (30) days beginning May 24, 1965, and ending June 23, 1965.

Sec. 3. Compliance with this Act shall be in lieu of any and all other publication which may be prescribed by any other provision of laws.

Sec. 4. All laws and clauses of laws in conflict with this Act are hereby repealed.

Sec. 5. This Act shall be in full force and effect upon its ratification.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 13th day of April, 1965.