PART I
THE CHARTER
CHARTER TABLE OF CONTENTS

Section

Article I: Incorporation And Corporate Powers

   1.1   Incorporation and general powers

   1.2   Exercise of powers

Article II: Corporate Boundaries

   2.1   Description

   2.2   Extension of boundaries

Article III: Mayor And City Council

   3.1   Composition of city council; method of election

   3.2   Terms; qualifications; vacancies

   3.3   Mayor and mayor pro tempore

   3.4   Compensation (Repealed 3-18-08)

   3.5   Organizational meeting; oaths of office

   3.6   Meetings of council; rules of procedure

   3.6.1   Notice of meetings

   3.7   Quorum; votes

   3.8   Ordinances and resolutions

Article IV: Election Procedure

   4.1   Regular city elections

   4.2   Voting

   4.3   Filing of candidates (Repealed)

   4.4   Electoral districts

   4.5   Regulation of elections

Article V: City Attorney

   5.1   Appointment; qualifications; term; compensation

   5.2   Duties

Article VI: Administrative Service

   6.1   General authority

   6.2   City clerk

   6.3   City tax collector

   6.4   City accountant

   6.5   Consolidation of functions

   6.6   Delegation of authority

Article VII: Claims Against The City

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Article VIII: Retirement System

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Editor’s note:

   Printed herein is the Charter of the City of Eden, Session Laws of 1967, Chapter 967 ratified on June 27, 1967. Style and capitalization have not been made uniform. Obviously misspelled words have been corrected without notation. Amendments have been included and are indicated by a history note immediately following the amended section.

ARTICLE I INCORPORATION AND CORPORATE POWERS

SEC. 1.1 INCORPORATION AND GENERAL POWERS.

   The inhabitants of the territory hereinabove described [in Session Laws of 1967, c. 967, § 2] shall be a body politic and corporate under the name and style of a city named as hereinabove provided [in Session Laws of 1967, c. 967, § 1], and shall have perpetual succession; may have a common seal and alter and renew the same at pleasure; may sue and be sued; may contract; may acquire and hold all such property, real and personal, as may be devised, bequeathed, sold or in any manner conveyed or dedicated to it or otherwise acquired by it, and may from time to time hold or invest, sell, or dispose of the same; and shall have and may exercise in conformity with this Charter all municipal powers, functions, rights, privileges and immunities of every name and nature.