NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1981 SESSION

CHAPTER 264

SENATE BILL 345

AN ACT TO AMEND THE CHARTER OF THE CITY OF WILMINGTON TO CLARIFY THE RIGHT OF THE MAYOR TO VOTE.  

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

Section 1. Chapter 495, Session Laws of 1977, being the Charter of the City of Wilmington, is amended by adding a new subsection to Section 3.11 of the Charter to read:

"(d)      The mayor shall have the right to vote as a council member on all matters before the council, but shall have no right to break a tie vote in which he participated. The mayor shall have no power to veto."

Sec. 2. This act is effective upon ratification.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 27th day of April, 1981.