NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY
1961 SESSION

CHAPTER 443
HOUSE BILL 611

AN ACT TO AMEND THE CHARTER OF THE CITY OF KINSTON.

The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

Section 1. That the Charter of the City of Kinston, being House Bill No. 188, ratified at this Session on the 23rd day of March, 1961, be and the same is hereby amended as follows:
(a)	The second sentence of subsection (c) of Section 4‑16 is amended and rewritten so as to read as follows:
"No special election shall be held for any purpose, except under the Municipal Finance Act, unless notice thereof is published once a week for four successive weeks in some newspaper of general circulation in Lenoir County"
(b)	The first sentence of subsection (b) of Section 5‑2 is amended and rewritten so as to read as follows:
"On the first Tuesday after the first Monday in May, 1961, a general election shall be held at which there shall be elected a mayor and five aldermen, and biennially thereafter on the first Tuesday after the first Monday in May a general election shall be held for the election of aldermen as hereinafter provided and for the election, at each quadrennial election after 1961, of a mayor."
(c)	Section 5‑23 is amended by adding at the end thereof a new sentence to read as follows:
"At the time of the organizational meeting following each general election the mayor shall appoint from among the members of the Council one alderman who shall be mayor pro tem; and in case of the death, resignation or incapacity of the mayor pro tem his successor shall be appointed by the mayor from the remaining aldermen."
Sec. 2. All laws and clauses of laws in conflict with this Act are hereby repealed.
Sec. 3. 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 16th day of May, 1961.