CHARTER

Section

Article I. Incorporation, Corporate Powers and Boundaries

   1.1.   Incorporation

   1.2.   Powers

   1.3.   Corporate limits

Article II. Governing Body

   2.1.   Mayor and Council

   2.2.   Council; composition; terms of office

   2.3.   Mayor; term of office; duties

   2.4.   Mayor Pro Tempore

   2.5.   Meetings

   2.6.   Ordinances and resolutions

   2.7.   Voting requirements; quorum

   2.8.   Compensation; qualifications for office; vacancies

Article III. Elections

   3.1.   Regular municipal elections

   3.2.   Wards; revision

   3.3.   Election of Council members

   3.4.   Election of the Mayor

   3.5.   Special elections and referendums

Article IV. Organization and Administration

   4.1.   Form of government

   4.2.   Town Manager

   4.3.   Town Clerk

   4.4.   Tax Collector

   4.5.   Town Attorney

   4.6.   Other administrative officers and employees

Article V. Special Assessment Provisions

Part 1. Streets and Sidewalks

   5.1.   Authority to assess for street improvements

   5.2.   Authority to assess for sidewalk improvements and repairs

   5.3.   Assessment procedure

   5.4.   Effect of assessment

   5.5.   Exemption of corner lots

Part 2. Water and Sewer

   5.6.   Authority to levy by alternate methods

   5.7.   Average costs

   5.8.   Subdivisions

   5.9.   Exemption of corner lots

Editor’s note:

   No stylistic or grammatical changes have been made to this document, other than to systemize and make consistent the format of the charter analysis above and the section headers below.

Statutory reference:

   The Charter of the Town of Edenton was revised and consolidated in 1986, per North Carolina House Bill 1461, Chapter 815.