PART I - CHARTER AND RELATED LAWS
Subpart A - CHARTER
ARTICLE I. - CORPORATE ORGANIZATION
Sec. 1. - Municipality continued; general corporate powers.
Sec. 2. - Property rights continued.
Sec. 3. - General grant of power.
Sec. 4. - Boundaries.
Sec. 5. - Powers vested in mayor, council and manager.
ARTICLE II. - THE COUNCIL
Sec. 6. - Composition; qualifications and terms of members.
Sec. 7. - Filling of vacancies.
Sec. 8. - Meetings generally; member's oath.
Sec. 9. - Meetings to be open; opportunity of citizens to be heard.
Sec. 10. - Selection of mayor and mayor pro tem; general powers of mayor.
Sec. 11. - Selection of clerk and other officers and employees; duties of clerk; rules and order of business.
Sec. 12. - Quorum; disqualification to vote.
Sec. 13. - Exercise of legislative powers, functions and duties.
Sec. 14. - Ordinances and resolutions—Introduction; subject matter; reading.
Sec. 15. - Same—Effective date.
Sec. 16. - Reserved.
Sec. 17. - Ordinances and resolutions—Authentication and recordation.
Sec. 17A. - Reserved.
Sec. 18. - Ordinances and resolutions—Revision or amendment.
ARTICLE III. - ADMINISTRATIVE SERVICE
Sec. 19. - Appointment, qualifications, term and removal of manager; acting manager.
Sec. 20. - Responsibility of manager to council; appointment and removal of officers and employees generally.
Sec. 21. - Further authority for removal; report of appointments and removals.
Sec. 22. - Council not to request or take part in appointments or removals.
Sec. 23. - Council to deal with administrative service through manager.
Sec. 24. - General duties of manager.
Sec. 25. - Right of manager and other officers to seats in council and participation in council discussions.
Sec. 26. - Departments generally.
Sec. 27. - Department heads.
Sec. 28. - Investigation of departments and offices.
Sec. 29. - Rules and regulations governing finances.
Sec. 30. - Limitation on indebtedness.
ARTICLE IV. - RESERVED
Sec. 31. - Reserved.
ARTICLE V. - RESERVED
Sec. 32. - Reserved.
ARTICLE VI. - RESERVED
Secs. 33, 34. - Reserved.
ARTICLE VII. - RESERVED
Secs. 35, 36. - Reserved.
ARTICLE VIII. - POLICE DEPARTMENT
Secs. 37, 38. - Reserved.
Sec. 38A. - Special police.
ARTICLE IX. - RESERVED
Sec. 39. - Reserved.
ARTICLE X. - RESERVED
Secs. 40—64. - Reserved.
ARTICLE XI. - RESERVED
Secs. 65—82C. - Reserved.
ARTICLE XII. - INITIATIVE, REFERENDUM AND RECALL
Sec. 83. - Initiative.
Sec. 84. - Referendum.
Sec. 85. - Recall—Generally.
Sec. 86. - Same—Officer sought to be removed as candidate to succeed himself.
ARTICLE XIII. - GENERAL ADMINISTRATIVE PROVISIONS
Secs. 86A—89. - Reserved.
Sec. 90. - Reenactment of provisions relative to actions and claims against city.
Sec. 91. - Reserved.
Sec. 92. - Reenactment of provisions relative to taxation.
Secs. 93, 94. - Reserved.
Sec. 95. - Continuation of ordinances, rules and regulations.
Sec. 96. - Continuation of offices.
Sec. 97. - Oath of officers.
Sec. 98. - Bond of officers.
Sec. 99. - Repealer.
Sec. 100. - Prior Charter continued.
Sec. 101. - Severability of Charter.
Sec. 101A. - Reserved.
CHARTER COMPARATIVE TABLE
Subpart B - RELATED LAWS
ARTICLE I. - IN GENERAL
Sec. 1. - Terms of councilmen.
Sec. 2. - Joint performance of city-county administrative functions.
Sec. 3. - Authority to levy and collect privilege taxes.
Sec. 4. - Business licenses generally.
Sec. 5. - Acquisition of land for airport purposes.
Sec. 6. - Annexation of Asheville Airport to the City of Asheville.
Sec. 7. - Reserved.
Sec. 8. - Amendment of General Statutes relative to sale, lease, etc., of parks and recreation property.
Sec. 9. - Amendment of General Statutes relative to sale or lease of property to further the purposes of urban development action grants.
Sec. 10. - Land sales by Asheville City Council and Asheville Housing Authority.
Sec. 11. - Supplying water outside city limits—Generally.
Sec. 12. - Same—Limitation on rates; shutting off service; waste of water, etc.
Sec. 12.1. - Water rates in Buncombe County—Sullivan Act II.
Sec. 12.2. - Operation of public enterprises by the city—Sullivan Act III.
Sec. 13. - Regulation of taxicab, bus, etc., fares.
Secs. 14., 15. - Reserved.
Sec. 16. - Debts of city to be discharged by taxation; city not liable to execution.
Sec. 17. - Officers and employees not to purchase claims, etc., against city.
Sec. 18. - Expenditure of funds for local development.
Sec. 19. - Filing of housing code notices or orders in the notice of lis pendens.
Sec. 20. - Exemption of Buncombe County from certain procedural requirements on disposal of land as an industrial park.
Sec. 21. - Cemeteries.
Sec. 22. - Removal of garbage.
Sec. 23. - Nuisances.
Secs. 24—30. - Reserved.
ARTICLE II. - CIVIL SERVICE
Sec. 31. - Department established.
Sec. 32. - Civil service board generally.
Sec. 33. - Composition of classified service.
Sec. 34. - Rules of civil service board.
Sec. 35. - Authority to review and approve promotions.
Sec. 36. - Investigations.
Sec. 37. - Layoffs, suspensions and removals.
Sec. 38. - Political activities prohibited.
Sec. 38.1. - [Designation of legal counsel.]
Sec. 39. - Administration of article; violations.
Sec. 40. - Application of article to incumbents.
Secs. 41—65. - Reserved.
ARTICLE III. - RESERVED
Secs. 66—190. - Reserved.
ARTICLE IV. - RESERVED
Secs. 191—215. - Reserved.
ARTICLE V. - ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGES
Sec. 216. - Election to authorize operation of liquor store; subsequent elections.
Sec. 217. - Establishment of additional liquor stores.
Sec. 218. - Establishment, composition, chairman, etc., of board of alcoholic control.
Sec. 219. - General powers and duties of board.
Sec. 220. - Jurisdiction in county of law enforcement officers employed by board.
Sec. 221. - Expenditure of funds for education as to effects of use of alcoholic beverages.
Sec. 222. - Division of net profits from liquor store.
Secs. 223—240. - Reserved.
ARTICLE VI. - DOWNTOWN DEVELOPMENT PROJECTS
Sec. 241. - Downtown development projects.
Sec. 242. - Applicability.
Secs. 243—260. - Reserved.
ARTICLE VII. - FAIR HOUSING
Sec. 261. - Creation of the Asheville-Buncombe Fair Housing Commission authorized.
RELATED LAWS COMPARATIVE TABLE
Subpart A CHARTER 1
Notes
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Editor's note(s)—Printed herein is the city's Charter as set forth in Chapter 121 of the Private Laws of 1931 and ratified by referendum in April of 1931. Amendments to the Charter are indicated by parenthetical history notes following amended provisions. The absence of a history note indicates that the provision remains unchanged from the original Charter. Obvious misspellings have been corrected without notation. Additions made for clarity are indicated by brackets. The original article numbers and headings and section numbers have been retained, but the section catchlines were added by the editor. The Charter originally provided for a council of nine members. Chapter 114, § 1, Private Laws of 1935, amended the Charter by changing the word "nine" to "seven" wherever it occurs in relation to the number of councilmen. The same act changed "one-ninth" to "one-seventh" wherever used in regard to "referendum and recall or other elections." These changes have been made throughout the Charter. |
ARTICLE I. CORPORATE ORGANIZATION
The inhabitants of the City of Asheville shall continue to be as they have heretofore been, a body politic and corporate under the name of "City of Asheville" and under that name shall have perpetual succession, may sue and be sued, may contract and be contracted with; may acquire, hold, manage, control, lease and dispose of property, real and personal, and may have a common seal and alter and renew the same at pleasure.
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