GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA

1983 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 1008

HOUSE BILL 1554

 

AN ACT TO AMEND THE CHARTER OF THE CITY OF CHARLOTTE RELATING TO EXCUSING MEMBERS OF COUNCIL FROM VOTING.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

 

Section 1.  Section 3.23(a) of the Charter of the City of Charlotte being Chapter 713, Session Laws of 1965 is amended by deleting the following sentence:  "No member shall be excused from voting except upon matters involving the consideration of his own official conduct or involving his financial interest."; and substituting in lieu thereof, the following sentence:  "No member shall be excused from voting except upon matters involving the consideration of his own official conduct, involving his financial interest, or when the member failed to attend the entire hearing on a request for the issuance of a special use permit."

Sec. 2.  This act is effective upon ratification.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 28th day of June, 1984.