CHARTER
Section
Article I. Incorporation and Corporate Powers
   1.1.   Incorporation and general powers
   1.2.   Exercise of powers
   1.3.   Enumerated powers not exclusive
Article II. Corporate Boundaries
   2.1.   Existing corporate boundaries
   2.2.   Extension of corporate boundaries
Article III. Mayor and Board of Alderpersons
   3.1.   Composition of board of alderpersons
   3.2.   Mayor and mayor pro tempore
   3.3.   Terms; qualifications; vacancies
   3.4.   Organization of board of alderpersons; oath of office
   3.5.   Meetings of board
   3.6.   Ordinances and resolutions
Article IV. Elections
   4.1.   Regular municipal elections
   4.2.   Other municipal elections
Article V. Town Attorney
   5.1.   Appointment; qualifications; terms; compensation
   5.2.   Duties
Article VI. Administrative Officers and Employees
   6.1.   Form of government
   6.2.   Deleted
   6.3.   Town administrator/town clerk
   6.4.   Town tax collector
   6.5.   Other officers and employees
Article VII. Finance
   7.1.   Custody of town money
   7.2.   Independent audit
Article VIII. Claims Against Town
   8.1.   Presentation of claims; suit upon claims
Article IX. Town Electric System
   9.1.   Sale, lease or discontinuance of municipally owned electric system
Article X. Street and Sidewalk Improvements
   10.1.   Authority to make street improvements; assessment of costs
   10.2.   When petition for street improvements unnecessary
   10.3.   “Street improvement” defined
   10.4.   Authority to make sidewalk improvements; assessment of costs
   10.5.   Assessment procedure
   10.6.   Effect of assessments
   10.7.   Acceptance of conveyance in satisfaction of assessments
Article XI. Prohibited Acts
   11.1.   Repealed
   11.2.   Discharge of firearms and explosives
Editor’s note:
   Set out herein is the Charter of the Town of Landis, as contained in section 1 of Session Laws 1975, chapter 213, ratified May 5, 1975, together with all acts amendatory thereof. Acts amending the Charter are cited following the sections affected. Unless so cited, each section derives unchanged from the original act.
   A uniform system of capitalization and spelling has been employed, and a frontal analysis has been added for the convenience of the user. Catch-lines have been added or altered where necessary to more accurately reflect the contents of each section.
Article I. Incorporation and Corporate Powers
Sec. 1.1. Incorporation and general powers.
   The Town of Landis, in the County of Rowan, shall continue to be a body politic and corporate under the name of the “Town of Landis,” and continue to be vested with all property and rights which now belong to the town; 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, 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.
Sec. 1.2. Exercise of powers.
   All powers, functions, rights, privileges, and immunities of the town, its officers, agencies, or employees, shall be carried into execution as provided by this Charter, or, if this Charter makes no provision, as provided by ordinance or resolution of the board of alderpersons and as provided by the General Statutes of North Carolina pertaining to municipal corporations.
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