NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1961 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 404

HOUSE BILL 518

 

 

AN ACT TO AMEND CHAPTER 30 OF THE PRIVATE LAWS OF 1913, AS AMENDED, BEING THE CHARTER OF THE TOWN OF BESSEMER CITY, TO AUTHORIZE THE BOARD OF TOWN COMMISSIONERS TO PROVIDE THAT THE SECRETARY SHALL HAVE THE POWERS AND PERFORM THE DUTIES OF TREASURER AND VALIDATING ALL ACTS HERETOFORE PERFORMED WITH RESPECT TO THE DUTIES AND FUNCTIONS OF THE SECRETARY AND THE TREASURER.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

 

Section 1. Subsection (f) of Section 10 of Chapter 30 of the Private Laws of 1913, as amended, the same being the Charter of the Town of Bessemer City, a municipal corporation in Gaston County, is hereby amended by adding a new paragraph at the end of said subsection to read as follows:

"(f)      The board of town commissioners may also provide that the secretary shall have the powers and perform the duties of treasurer, such powers and duties to be prescribed from time to time by said board and to be in addition to all powers and duties as may be prescribed by law, and in such event the secretary shall be known as the 'secretary and treasurer'."

Sec. 2. All acts heretofore performed with respect to the duties and functions of the secretary and of the treasurer are hereby in all respects legalized, ratified, approved, validated and confirmed notwithstanding that such acts were performed by one person as secretary and treasurer.

Sec. 3. This Act shall be deemed to provide an additional and alternative method for the doing of the things authorized hereby and shall be regarded as supplemental and additional to powers conferred by other laws, and shall not be regarded as in derogation of or as repealing any powers now existing under any other law, either general, special or local.

Sec. 4. All general, special or local laws, or parts thereof, inconsistent herewith are hereby declared to be inapplicable to the provisions of this Act.

Sec. 5. This Act shall be in full force and effect from and after its ratification.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 9th day of May, 1961.