CHAPTER 30: GENERAL ADMINISTRATION, OFFICERS AND ORGANIZATIONS
Section
General Administration
   30.01   Ordinances
   30.02   Regulatory templates
   30.03   Authorization for Town Manager to enter into certain contracts
   30.04   Signing and countersigning of checks and the like
   30.05   Town Manager’s authorization to dispose of certain personal property
   30.06   Use of the official town seal
Officers and Employees
   30.20   Appointment and responsibility of Town Manager
   30.21   Powers and duties of Town Manager
   30.22   Duties of Town Clerk
Planning Board
   30.35   Established; jurisdiction
   30.36   Purpose
   30.37   Composition; terms; vacancies; attendance of members
   30.38   Officers; rules; records; quorum
   30.39   Meetings
   30.40   Powers and duties
Duck Trail Advisory Committee
   30.50   Established
   30.51   Composition; terms; vacancies; attendance
   30.52   Chairperson; rules; meetings
   30.53   Duties
   30.54   Function as advisory body
GENERAL ADMINISTRATION
§ 30.01 ORDINANCES.
   (A)   Proposal in writing; approval of form by Town Attorney. Every ordinance amending or repealing any ordinance and every new ordinance shall be proposed in writing, signed by the Council member presenting the same.
   (B)   Procedure when amending or adding to this code. Every ordinance introduced, if it proposes to amend or repeal any existing portion of an existing ordinance, shall show by proper reference the ordinance, article, division and section proposed to be amended. In addition to the indication thereof, as may be contained in the text of the proposed ordinance, the same shall be shown in concise form above the ordinance.
   (C)   Filing after passage. Every ordinance passed by the Council shall be immediately filed by the Town Clerk in a book provided for that purpose.
(Ord. 03-02, passed 3-5-2003)
§ 30.02 REGULATORY TEMPLATES.
   (A)   Authority to permit. The Council may, from time to time, authorize the printing of templates containing certain regulatory ordinances applicable within the town which ordinances should be brought to the attention of tourists, visitors and temporary residents of the town whether residing in rental properties or frequenting applicable businesses.
   (B)   Duty of Town Manager.
      (1)   Upon approval of the content of the regulatory ordinances to be printed on the template, the Town Manager shall cause to be printed in a permanent unerasable material in sufficient quantity to be posted in all applicable businesses, rental properties, hotel rooms and units located within the town.
      (2)   The Town Manager shall distribute the templates, as from time to time may be authorized and printed, to applicable businesses, individual owners, agents and realtors of rental properties in the town in sufficient quantities for the placement of the same in each hotel room or each rental cottage and unit located in the town.
   (C)   Duties of applicable business owners or owners, agents and the like, of hotels, cottages and the like. Each applicable business or owner, realtor or agent of rental cottages and units and each hotel owner or operator, receiving the templates shall cause 1 template to be placed and maintained in a prominent position or place so as to be easily noticeable by the occupants thereof in each business, cottage, rental unit or apartment and in each hotel room or unit within 15 business days of the delivery of the same to the office of the realtor, owner, operator or within 15 days of the depositing of the templates in the United States mail service, postage prepaid addressed to the realtor, owner or operator.
   (D)   Replacing lost, destroyed and the like, templates. Each applicable business owner or owner, realtor, agent or operator shall, in the event any of the templates are lost or destroyed, notify the Town Manager who shall issue a replacement template which shall be posted within 15 days of the loss or destruction.
(Ord. 04-01, passed 1-7-2004)
§ 30.03 AUTHORIZATION FOR TOWN MANAGER TO ENTER INTO CERTAIN CONTRACTS.
   The Town Manager shall be authorized to enter into contracts for repair work requiring an estimated expenditure of public money in an amount not greater than $20,000, and for the purchase of apparatus, supplies, materials or equipment requiring an estimated expenditure of public money in any amount; provided however, that the expenditure shall not be made in an amount greater than that which has previously been budgeted and approved by the Town Council. Provided further, that the Town Manager shall comply with all the requirements of law for the letting of public contracts and for purchases utilizing public funds. It is further provided that upon compliance with this section, the Town Manager shall have full authority to bind the town in a contract or purchase.
(Ord. 04-05, passed 4-7-2004)
§ 30.04 SIGNING AND COUNTERSIGNING OF CHECKS AND THE LIKE.
   (A)   The finance officer of the town, is authorized to sign all checks, drafts or other financial instruments as required by G.S. § 159-25(b) and the Council shall designate another town officer or Council member authorized to countersign all like checks, drafts and other financial instruments.
   (B)   In the event of the temporary absence or disability of the finance officer, financial instruments of the nature above-described shall be signed by the Town Manager acting as finance officer.
(Ord. 03-02, passed 3-5-2003)
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