ORDINANCE NO.

AN ORDINANCE ENACTING A CODE OF ORDINANCES FOR THE CITY OF LOCUST, REVISING, AMENDING, RESTATING, CODIFYING AND COMPILING CERTAIN EXISTING GENERAL ORDINANCES OF THE CITY OF LOCUST DEALING WITH SUBJECTS EMBRACED IN SUCH CODE OF ORDINANCES, AND DECLARING AN EMERGENCY.

WHEREAS, the present general and permanent ordinances of the City of Locust are inadequately arranged and classified and are in insufficient form and substance for the complete preservation of the public peace, health, safety and general welfare of the municipality and for the proper conduct of its affairs; and

WHEREAS, the Acts of the Legislature of the State of North Carolina empower and authorize the political subdivision to revise, amend, restate, codify and compile any existing ordinances and all new ordinances not heretofore adopted or published and to incorporate such ordinances into one ordinance in book form; and

WHEREAS, the Legislative Authority of the City of Locust has authorized a general compilation, revision and codification of the ordinance of the City of Locust of a general and permanent nature and publication of such ordinance in book form; and

WHEREAS, it is necessary to provide for the usual daily operation of the municipality and for the immediate preservation of the public peace, health, safety and general welfare of the municipality that this ordinance take effect at an early date.

NOW THEREFORE BE IT ORDAINED, by the City Council of the City of Locust, NC:

1. The general ordinances of the City of Locust as revised, amended, restated, codified, and compiled in book form are hereby adopted as and shall constitute the “Code of Ordinances of the City of Locust, NC.”

2. Such Code of Ordinance as adopted in Section 1 shall consist of the following Titles:

Article I. Incorporation and Corporate Powers

Sec. 1.1 Incorporation and general powers

Sec. 1.2 Exercise of powers

Sec. 1.3 Enumerated powers not exclusive

Article II. Corporate Boundaries

Sec. 2.1 Corporate boundaries

Article III. Mayor and City Council

Sec. 3.1 Temporary officers

Sec. 3.2 Mayor and Mayor Pro Tempore

Sec. 3.3 Composition of City Council

Sec. 3.4 Terms; qualifications; vacancies

Sec. 3.5 Compensation of Mayor and Councilmen

Sec. 3.6 Organization of Council; oaths of office

Sec. 3.7 Meetings of Council

Sec. 3.8 Quorum; votes

Sec. 3.9 Ordinances and resolutions

Article IV. Election Procedure

Sec. 4.1 Regular municipal elections

Sec. 4.2 Regulation of elections

Article V. City Attorney

Sec. 5.1 Appointment; qualifications; terms; compensation

Sec. 5.2 Duties of the City Attorney

Article VI. Administrative Officers and Employees

Sec. 6.1 City Clerk

Sec. 6.2 City Tax Collector

Sec. 6.3 City Finance Officer

Sec. 6.4 Consolidation of functions

Sec. 6.5 Other employees

Article VII. Finance

Sec. 7.1 Custody of city money

Sec. 7.2 Issuance of bonds

Sec. 7.3 Purchases and contracts

Sec. 7.4 Independent audit

Sec. 7.5 Taxation

Article VIII. Claims Against the City

Sec. 8.1 Tort claims

3. All prior ordinances pertaining to the subjects treated in such Code of Ordinances shall be deemed repealed from and after the effective date of this ordinance except as they are included and reordained in whole or in part in such Code; provided, such repeal shall not affect any offense committed or penalty incurred or any right established prior to the effective date of this ordinance, nor shall such repeal affect the provisions of ordinance levying taxes, appropriating money, annexing or detaching territory, establishing franchises, or granting special rights to certain persons, authorizing public improvements, authorizing the issuance of bonds or borrowing of money, authorizing the purchase or sale of real or personal property, granting or accepting easements, plat or dedication of land to public use, vacating or setting the boundaries of streets or other public places; nor shall such repeal affect any other ordinance of a temporary or special nature or pertaining to subjects not contained in or covered by the Code.

4. Such Code shall be deemed published as of the day of its adoption and approval by the Legislative Authority and the Clerk of the City of Locust is hereby authorized and ordered to file a copy of such Code of Ordinances in the Office of the Clerk.

5. Such Code shall be in full force and effect as provided in Section 6, and such Code shall be presumptive evidence in all courts and places of the ordinance and all provisions, sections, penalties and regulations therein contained and of the date of passage, and that the same is properly signed, attested recorded, and approved and that any public hearings and notices thereof as required by law have been given.

6. This ordinance is declared to be an emergency measure necessary for the immediate preservation of the peace, health, safety and general welfare of the people of this municipality, and shall take effect at the earliest date provided by law.

PASSED AND ADOPTED by the Locust City Council of the City of Locust on this 7th day of May 2009.

ATTEST: Harold Greene, Mayor

Lora Flieger, City Clerk

SEAL

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