The City may adopt ordinances to regulate and control the speed of vessels in waterways within its boundaries or within its extraterritorial jurisdiction, as that term is used in Article 19 of Chapter 160A of the General Statutes. If the City adopts ordinances to regulate and control the speed of vessels as herein authorized, the City or its designee shall place and maintain markers in accordance with the Uniform Waterway Marking System and any supplementary standards for the system adopted by the Wildlife Resources Commission. All markers regulating and controlling the speed of vessels shall be buoys or floating signs placed in the water and must be sufficient in number and size as to give adequate warning of the speed limit to the vessels approaching from various directions. This section is enforceable after markers complying with its provisions are placed in the water.
SECTION 2. The purpose of this act is to review the Charter of the City of Elizabeth City and to consolidate certain acts concerning the property, affairs, and government of the City. It is intended to continue without interruption those provisions of prior acts that are expressly consolidated into this act, so that all rights and liabilities which have accrued are preserved and may be enforced.
SECTION 3. This act does not repeal or affect any acts concerning the property, affairs of government of public schools, or any acts validating official actions, proceedings, contracts, or obligations of any kind.
SECTION 4. The following acts, having served the purposes for which they were enacted or having been consolidated into this act, are expressly repealed:
Chapter 131, Private Laws of 1868-69.
Chapter 189, Public Laws of 1874-75.
Chapter 135, Private Laws of 1895.
Chapter 115, Public Laws of 1899.
Chapter 111, Private Laws of 1901.
Chapter 170, Private Laws of 1901.
Chapter 278, Private Laws of 1901.
Chapter 46, Private Laws of 1903.
Chapter 99, Private Laws of 1903.
Chapter 262, Private Laws of 1903.
Chapter 350, Private Laws of 1905.
Chapter 81, Private Laws of 1907.
Chapter 117, Private Laws of 1907.
Chapter 379, Private Laws of 1907.
Chapter 319, Private Laws of 1909.
Chapter 330, Private Laws of 1909.
Chapter 120, Private Laws of 1911.
Chapter 257, Private Laws of 1913.
Chapter 262, Private Laws of 1913.
Chapter 487, Private Laws of 1913.
Chapter 127, Private Laws of 1913 (Ex. Sess.).
Chapter 341, Private Laws of 1915.
Chapter 299, Public-Local Laws of 1921, as to Elizabeth City only.
Chapter 50, Private Laws of 1921, except section 1.
Chapter 202, Private Laws of 1921.
Chapter 248, Private Laws of 1921.
Chapter 45, Private Laws of 1921 (Ex. Sess.).
Chapter 90, Private Laws of 1921 (Ex. Sess.).
Chapter 240, Public-Local Laws of 1923, as to Elizabeth City only.
Chapter 461, Public-Local Laws of 1923, as to Elizabeth City only.
Chapter 217, Private Laws of 1923.
Chapter 246, Private Laws of 1923.
Chapter 263, Public Laws of 1933, as to Elizabeth City only.
Chapter 232, Private Laws of 1933, as to Elizabeth City only.
Chapter 481, Public-Local Laws of 1939, except section 2.
Chapter 301, Session Laws of 1945.
Chapter 508, Session Laws of 1949.
Chapter 997, Session Laws of 1953.
Chapter 427, Session Laws of 1955.
Chapter 268, Session Laws of 1957.
Chapter 1450, Session Laws of 1957.
Chapter 84, Session Laws of 1959.
Chapter 24, Session Laws of 1963.
Chapter 158, Session Laws of 1963, except section 36.
Chapter 694, Session Laws of 1965.
Chapter 35, Session Laws of 1967.
Chapter 107, Session Laws of 1967.
Chapter 159, Session Laws of 1973.
Chapter 930, Session Laws of 1983 (Reg. Sess. 1984).
Chapter 844, Session Laws of 1985 (Reg. Sess. 1986).
Chapter 295, Session Laws of 1989.
Chapter 174, Session Laws of 1999.
SECTION 5. The Mayor and Council members serving on the date of ratification of this act shall serve until the expiration of their terms or until their successors are elected and qualified. Thereafter, those offices shall be filled as provided in Articles II and III of the Charter of the City of Elizabeth City as contained in Section 1 of this act.
SECTION 6. This act does not affect any rights or interests that arose under any provisions repealed by this act.
SECTION 7. All existing ordinances, resolutions, and other provisions of the City of Elizabeth City not inconsistent with the provisions of this act shall continue in effect until repealed or amended.
SECTION 8. No action or proceeding pending on the effective date of this act by or against the City or any of its departments or agencies shall be abated or otherwise affected by this act.
SECTION 9. If any provision of this act or application thereof is held invalid, the invalidity shall not affect other provisions or applications of this act that can be given effect without the invalid provision or application, and to this end the provisions of this act are declared to be severable.
SECTION 10. Whenever a reference is made in this act to a particular provision of the General Statutes and the provision is later amended, suspended, or recodified, the reference shall be deemed amended to refer to the amended General Statutes, or to the General Statutes which most clearly correspond to the statutory provision that is amended, suspended, or recodified.
SECTION 11. This act is effective when it becomes law.
In the General Assembly read three times and ratified this the 19 day of June, 2001.
s/ Marc Basnight
President Pro Tempore of the Senate
s/ James B. Black
Speaker of the House of Representatives