CHARTER
Section
1.1 Incorporation and Corporate Powers
1.2 Certain Powers Enumerated
1.3 Enumerated Powers Not Exclusive
2.1 Corporate Limits
3.1 Creation, Salary and Composition of Mayor and Board of Commissioners
3.2 Mayor and Mayor Pro Tem
3.3 Board of Commissioners Rules
3.4 [Reserved]
3.5 Meetings of the Board of Commissioners
3.6 Quorum
3.7 Introduction and Passage of Ordinances and Resolutions
4.1 Municipal Elections
4.2 [Reserved]
4.3 [Reserved]
4.4 Ballots
4.5 Election of Mayor and Board of Commissioners
5.1 Town Attorney
5.2 Powers and Duties of Town Attorney
6.1 Town Clerk
6.2 Duties of Town Tax Collector
6.3 Duties of Town Accountant
6.4 Duties of Town Treasurer
7.1 Custody of Town Money
7.2 Independent Audit
8.1 Pubic Records
8.2 Personal Interest
8.3 Continuance of Contracts
9.1 Saving Clause
9.2 Repealing Clause
9.3 Effective Date of Charter
AN ACT TO REVISE AND CONSOLIDATE THE CHARTER OF THE TOWN OF FOUR OAKS, NORTH CAROLINA.
The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:
The inhabitants of the Town of Four Oaks, North Carolina, within the boundaries as established in Section 2.1 of this charter or as hereafter established in the manner provided by law, shall continue to be a body politic and corporate by name the Town of Four Oaks, and under that name shall have perpetual succession; may use a corporate seal; may sue and be sued; may acquire property within or without its boundaries for any municipal purpose, in fee simple or lesser interest or estate, by purchase, gift, devise, lease or condemnation and may sell, lease, hold, manage and control such property as its interests may required; and, except as prohibited by the Constitution of North Carolina or restricted by this charter, the Town of Four Oaks shall have and may exercise all municipal powers, functions, rights, privileges and immunities of every name and nature whatsoever.
The following shall be deemed to be a part of the powers conferred upon the Town of Four Oaks by this Section:
(a) To levy, assess and collect taxes and to borrow money within the limits prescribed by general law; and to levy and collect special assessments for benefits conferred.
(b) To furnish all local public services; to purchase, hire, construct, own, maintain and operate or lease local public utilities; to acquire, by condemnation or otherwise, within or without the corporate limits, property necessary for any such purpose, subject to restrictions imposed by general law for the protection of other communities; and to grant local public utility franchises and regulate the exercise thereof.
(c) To make local public improvements and to acquire, by condemnation, or otherwise, property within or without its corporate limits necessary for such improvements; and also to acquire an excess over that needed for any such improvement, and to sell or lease such excess property with restrictions, in order to protect and preserve the improvement.
(d) To issue and sell bonds on the security of any such excess property, or of any public utility owned by the town, or of the revenue thereof, or of both, including in the case of a public utility, if deemed desirable by the town, a franchise stating the terms upon which, in case of foreclosure, the purchaser may operate such utility.
(e) To organize and administer public libraries.
(f) To adopt and enforce within its limits local police, sanitary and other similar regulations not in conflict with general laws.
Except as otherwise provided in this Act the board of commissioners shall have authority to determine by whom and in what manner that powers granted by this Section shall be exercised.
The enumeration of particular powers by this charter shall not be held or deemed to be exclusive but, in addition to the powers enumerated therein or implied thereby, or appropriate to the exercise of such powers, it is intended that the Town of Four Oaks shall have, and may exercise, all powers which, under the Constitution of North Carolina, it would be competent for this charter specifically to enumerate. All powers of the town, whether expressed or implied, shall be exercised in the manner prescribed by this charter, or, if not prescribed therein, then in the manner provided by ordinance or resolution of the board of commissioners.
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