NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1965 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 658

HOUSE BILL 301

 

 

AN ACT TO AMEND SECTION 160-346 OF THE GENERAL STATUTES OF NORTH CAROLINA RELATING TO THE SALARIES OF THE MEMBERS OF THE CITY COUNCIL AND OF THE MAYOR OF THE CITY OF GASTONIA.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

 

Section 1. Section 160-346, Chapter 160, of the General Statutes of North Carolina is hereby amended by adding at the end thereof the following:

"Provided that in the City of Gastonia the mayor shall receive for his services such salary as the city council shall by vote of not less than a majority of its members determine, not exceeding eighteen hundred dollars ($1800.00) a year, and he shall receive no other compensation from the city; and in the City of Gastonia the city council may, by a vote of not less than a majority of its members, taken by call of the yeas and nays, establish a salary for its members not exceeding twelve hundred dollars ($1200.00) a year for each. Such salaries of said mayor and all members may be increased or decreased within the limits stated above by such vote at any time and from time to time."

Sec. 2. All laws and clauses of laws in conflict with this Act are hereby repealed.

Sec. 3. This Act shall become effective May 5, 1965.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 21st day of May, 1965.