CHARTER
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Article I.  Incorporation, Corporate Powers and Boundaries
      Section 1.1.   Incorporation
      Section 1.2.   Powers
      Section 1.3.   Corporate limits
Article II.  Governing Body
      Section 2.1.   Mayor and Board of Commissioners
      Section 2.2.   Board of Commissioners: composition: terms of office
      Section 2.3.   Mayor: term of office: duties
      Section 2.4.   Mayor Pro Tempore
      Section 2.5.   Meetings
      Section 2.6.   Voting requirements: quorum
      Section 2.7.   Compensation: qualifications for office: vacancies
Article III.  Elections
      Section 3.1.   Regular municipal elections
      Section 3.2.   Election of Board of Commissioners
      Section 3.3.   Election of Mayor
      Section 3.4.   Special elections and referendums
Article IV.  Organization and Administration
      Section 4.1.   Form of government
      Section 4.2.   Town Manager
      Section 4.3.   Town Clerk
      Section 4.4.   Tax Collector
      Section 4.5.   Town Attorney
      Section 4.6.   Other administrative officers and employees
Article V.  Additional Provisions
      Section 5.1.   Alcoholic beverage control stores
      Section 2
      Section 3
      Section 4
      Section 5
      Section 6
      Section 7
      Section 8
      Section 9
      Section 10
      Section 11
      Section 12
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT TO REVISE AND CONSOLIDATE THE CHARTER OF THE TOWN OF WALNUT COVE
Editor’s note:
   Please see Chapter 31 of the codified ordinances of the Town of Walnut Cove for legislation amending the Charter.
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
   Section 1.  The Charter of the Town of Walnut Cove is revised and consolidated to read as follows:
THE CHARTER OF THE TOWN OF WALNUT COVE
ARTICLE I.  INCORPORATION, CORPORATE POWERS AND BOUNDARIES
 
   “Section 1.1.  Incorporation.  The Town of Walnut Cove, North Carolina in Stokes County and the inhabitants thereof shall continue to be a municipal body politic and corporate, under the name of the ‘Town of Walnut Cove,’ hereinafter at times referred to as the ‘Town.’
   “Section 1.2.  Powers.  The Town shall have and may exercise all of the powers, duties, rights, privileges and immunities conferred upon the Town of Walnut Cove specifically by this Charter or upon municipal corporations by general law. The term ‘general law’ is employed herein as defined in G.S. 160A-1.
   “Section 1.3.  Corporate Limits.  The corporate limits shall be those existing at the time of ratification of this Charter, as set forth on the official map of the Town and as they may be altered from time to time in accordance with law. An official map of the Town, showing the current boundaries, shall be maintained permanently in the office of the Town Clerk and shall be available for public inspection. Immediately upon alteration of the corporate limits made pursuant to law, the appropriate changes to the official map shall be made and copies shall be filed in the office of the Secretary of State, the Stokes County Register of Deeds and the appropriate board of elections.
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