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Friday. July 30.1940 of the budget year,, the head of each office, department or agency shall submit to the city manager, when required by him, a work program for the year, which program shall show the requested allotments ol the appropriations for such office, department or agency, by monthly periods, for the'entire budget year. The city manager shall review the requested allotments in the light ol the work progfam of the office, department or agency concerned, and may revise, alter or change such allotments before approving the same. The aggregate of such allotments shall not exceed the total s- 'roprlation available to' said office, department or agency for t*"? budget year. SECTION 65: The city manager shall file a copy of the allotments with the director of finance, who "* shal authorize all expenditures for the offices, departments and agencies to be made from the appropriations on the basis of approved allotments and not otherwise. An approved allotment may be revised dur* In" the budget year in the same manner as the original allotnrtent was made. If, at an" time during the budget- ve? the city manager shall ascertain that the available income, ' plus balances, for 'he year will be less than the total a-iropriations, he shall reconsider the work programs and allotments of the several offices, departments and agencies and revise the allotments so as to forestall the rnakin" of ex~"nditures in excess of the said income. - SECTION 66: The city manager may - .; * time transfer anv unen/?nmhornH o rMtrnnri o f 5r?n holanna. nr portion* thereof between general classifications of "xpendiiures within an office, department or agency. At the request of the city manager and within the last, three months of the budget year, the council mav by resolution transfer any unencumbered a"->ropriadion balance or^ortion thereof from one office,.department or agencv to another. No transfer shall be made from the anpro^riatiins required by subsections (a), (b), (c), (d), (e), (f), (g), (h), and li) of section 54 of this charter. SECTTON 67: No officer, department, or agency shall, during any budget year, expend or contract to expend any money or incur any liability. or enter into any contract which by. its terms involves the expenditures of money, for any purpose, in excess of the amounts appropriated for that general classification of enpenditure pursuant to this charter. Any contract, verbal or written, made in violation of this charter shall be null and void. Any officer or employee of the city who shall violate this section shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and, upon conviction thereof, shall cease to hold . his office or employment. Nothing in this section contained, however, shall prevent the making of contracts or the spending of money for capital improvements to be financed in whole or in part by the issuance of bonds ,uor the making of contracts of lease or for services for a period exceeding the budget year in which such contract is made, when such contract Is permitted by law. SECTION 68: All appropriations shall lapse at the end of the budget year to the extent that they shall not have been expended or lawful iy encumoerea. SECTION 69j A\ fees received by any officer or employee shall belong to the city government and shall be paid daily to the departhient of finance. . '! . SECTION 70: There shall be established in the department of finance a division of purch'ases, the head of which shall be the city purchasing agent. This purchasing agent shall constitute either the director oi finance or the city manager. The purchasing agent, pursuant to rules and regulations established by ordinance, shall contract for, purchase, store and distribute all supplies, materfals and equipment required by any office, department or agency of the city government. The purchasing agent shall have power and shall be required to: 1. Establish and enforce specifications with respect to supplies, material, and equipment required by the city government: 2. Inspect or supervise the inspection of all deliveries of supplies, materials, and equipment, and determine their quality, quantity and conformance with specifications; 3. Have charge of such general storerooms and warehouses as the council may provide by ordinance; 4. Transfer to or between offices, departments or agencies, or sell surplus, obsolete, or unused supplies, material and equipment. SECTION 71: Before the city purchasing agent makes any purchase of or contract for supplies, materials or equipollent, he Shall give ample opportunity for competitive bidding, under such rules and regulations, and with such exceptions, as the /lAiinnll mou rtrocnplho hu nrrfinflnOP' WU11VII ?"?J VM?.? W*. MJ W> I, provided, however, that the council shall not except individual contracts, purchases or sales from the requirement of competitive bidding. Nor shall the council prescribe by ordinance any rule contrary to the general law of the state of North Carolina governing municipal corporations. SECTION 72: Any city improvement costing more than $1,000.00 shall be executed by contract except where such improvement is authorized by the council to be executed directly by a city department in conformity with detailed plans, specifications and estimates. All such contracts for more than $1,000.00 shall be awardto the lowest responsi? ble bidder after such public notice and competition as may be prescribed by ordinance, provided the city manager shall have the power to reject all bids and advertise again. Alterations in any contract may be made when authorized by the council upon the written recommendation of the city manager, provided however, the direction given in this section shall not go beyond the general law as Is prescribed for the handling of contracts with respect to municipal corporations in the - state of North Carolina. SECTION 73: All purchases made and contracts executed by the purchasing agern shall be -pursuant to i a written requisition from the head i of the office, department or agency whose appropriation will be charged, and no contract or orders shall be issued to any vendor unless and until the director of finance certi fies that there is to the credit of such office, department or agency a sufficient unencumbered appropriation balance to pay for the supplier, materials, equipment or contractual services for which the contract or order is to be issue. SECTION 74: No contract shall be executed for the acquisition of any property or the construction of any improvement or betterment to be ! financed by the issuance of bonds until the ordinance authorizing the issuance of such bonds shall have taken effect and any contract executed before such day shall be unenforceable in any court of law. SECTION 75: Emergency appro, priations and borrowing to meet emergency appropriation or borrowing in anticipation ,of property taxes or borrowing in anticipation of other revenues shall be governed by the constitution and the general laws of North Carolina applicable to municipal corporations. ARTICLE 7 i SECTION 76: There shall be a City Planning Board or Commission which shall consist of five members who shall be appointed by the Council, none of whom shall hold anyother public office or position in the city. The city manager and mayor shall . serve as ex-offlcio members of the Commission. The Commission shall elect its Chairman from among the appointed members. n RTiri fr Q SECTION 11: That the city of Kings Mountain shall be divided into flVe wards as follows: Ward No. 1 Beginning at a point in the center .of Southern Railroad eight hundred and twenty-five feet northeast of the northwest corner of the Southern depot and running thence nearly east to the end of Gaston Street; thenCe with Gaston-Street southerly to the corporate limits of the Town; thence with the corporate limits south seventy-eight west 'three thousand eight hundred and twenty feet to a stake; thence with said corporate limits north fifty-six wes't one thousand three hundred and fifty feet to the center of the Southern Railroad; thence with the Southern Railroad northerly to the beginning. Ward No. 2 j . Beginning at a ipoint in the center of Southern Railroad eight hundred and twenty-five feet, northeast of the northwest corner of the Southern depot and running thence nearly East to the end of Gaston Street; thence with Gaston Street southerly to the corporate limits of the Town;.thence with the corporate limits Horth forty-one East four thousand nine hundred and fifty feet to a stake in said city limits; thence with the corporate limits noth twelve and one-'half west to | the Barker branch or Crowders Creek; thence up the Parkei branch 1 to the beginning. Ward No. 3 Beginning at a point in the center of Southern Railroad eight hundred and twenty-five feet northeast of the northwest corner of the Southern depot and running thence nearly East to the end of Gaston Street near Parker Branch thence down said branch easterly to the corporate limits; thence with the corporate limits North twelve and -one-half West ttve thousand two hundred and seventy feet to a stake in the said corporate limits; thence with said corporate limits. North sixtyone West one thousand one hundred and seventeen feet to" the center of the Southern Railroad; thence with the said Southern Railroad southerliy to rhe beginning. Ward No. 4 Beginning at a point in the center of Southern Railroad eight hundred and twenty-five feet northeast of the j northwest corner of the Southern depot and running northerly to the corporate limits; thence with the i corporate limits North sixty-one West two thousand and seventy feet a eioIro nn ihn rhorriruillo Pnart' iv? u ov?fnv */ll mv v/nvi ? / t iiiv ??vw? | thence with the corporate limits I South fifty-five and one-half West two thousand nine hundred and six; teen feet to a stake; thence with the j corporate limits South forty West ! to the Waco Road; thence with Che I Waco and Piedmont Street to the I beginning. Word No. 5 Beginning at a point in the center 1 of Southern "Railroad eight hundred and twenty-five feet northeast of the northwest corner of the Southern depot and running thence northerly with Piedmont Street to Waco Road; thence with the Waco Road westerly to the corporate limits; thence with the corporate limits South forty west eight thousand five hundred and fifty feet to a stake, corner of the corporate limits; thence .with the corporate limits South fifty-six East four thousand two hundred and seventy-five feet to the center of the Southern Railroad, corner of Ward One; thence with the Southern Railroad northerly to the beginning. SECTION 78; That on the second Tuesday after the first Monday in May, 1949, and biennially thereafter, .there shall toe elected five, city council men, one from each of the five wards of the city, which wards J ? -1 A ? mc uciuicu anu ucacriucu uy cuy map on file In the office of the clerk of the city. Each candidate for councilman shall reside In the ward for which he offers himself a candidate, but shall be voted upon and shall be elected at large by Sii of the qualified voters of the city; and the candidate from each ward receiving a majority of the votes cast by the entire chy shall he declared elected as councilman from thC ward whfch he Is a candidate for a term of office for two years and until his successor is elected and qualified. Every voter shall be entitled to vote for as many candidates as there are members to be elected to i the council. All candidates, up to the number to be elected, who receive a majority of the votes shall be declared elected. If more than the number to be elected receive a majority vote those receiving most votes shall be declared elected. A " * " V*" v. * ; . - v'' tfcjfS ' .:>i .. . . ..* ..V* THE KINGS MOUNTAIN HER# majority vote for -the purpose of i this ?eouon snau .oe a majority pi a numoer of voies determined by dividing the total votes of ail candidates by the number ot persons tor ivhom each voter is entitied to cast a vote. If there are one or more positions tor which no one is elected at the first election, a second election shall be held two weeks later. In the second election there shall be printed on the ballot twice as many names as there are positions to be filled tiom the unelected candidates polling the largest number of votes in the fir$t election. In this election, the remaining positions shall be filled py declaring elected the several candidates polling the largest number of votes. Any tigs shall be decided by lot. SECTION 79: The council may by resolution order a special election at any time, for the election of a new council by the qualified electors of the city. The term "qualified elector" as used in this charier shall mean a citizen having the qualifications required by law to vote in the city who is at the time regeistered to vote or, if no latejr complete registration is in effect at the time, was registered to vote in the city at the last preceding general election. Any special election of the council shall ' be held as nearly as practicable ae- |. cording to the provisions for a reg- ' ular election. The purpose of this section is to provide for the election of a member to the council in case of a vacancy. SECTION 80: The council -shall make such regulations it considers needful or desirable, not inconsis tent with this charter and the general election laws of North Carolina for the conduct of municipal'elections, for the prevention of fraud in such elections, and for the recount of ballots in'the case-of'doubt or , fraud. Municipal elections shall be i conducted by the regular election officials, who shall also have power to make such regulations not incon- i sistent with this charter and the . general election laws of North Carolina together with any regulations I made by the council. < SECTION 81: Any qualified elec- < tor of the city may offer himself as I a candidate ror any place on the < council'by depositing with the city ' clerk the sum of $5.00, together < with an announcement properly pre- ' pared as he may see fit, stating a- < mong other things that he desires -if that his name be -plated before the ' qualified .voters of the city to be < voted on by all qualified electors or persons who are qualified to vote I in the city election for the position 1 he is announcing or desires to hold, i This payment and announcement 1 must be made by any qualified elector seeking to be elected to any office not earlier than ninety days nor | later than thirty days before the | election, and unless the deposit is j made of the aforesaid amount and , the announcement is properly , drawn stating which place or of- | fice he seeks, said elector's name ] shall not be placed on the ballot. SECTION 82: Any election held < within the city shall be govetned by , the general laws of the state of Nor- , th Carolina controlling or pertain- ] ing to the election of any person to < office. The same voting places as , heretofore designated by the town | or city officials shall be continued | as at present. The checking of re- ( turns and the rules for gounting ( ballots shall be the same as provid- j ed under the general election laws | of the state of North Carolina, and | this charter. _ . ( SECTION 83: (a) If one or more ( vacancies occur in the council or ( the trustees for the schools at any < time, they shall be filled by a re- i count of the ballots which were ere- f dited to the vacating member or members together with the other t ballots which were not credited to s any of the elected members remain- i ing in office. Any such recount shall c be conducted according to the pro- t visions for the original count except t that: " 1 1 The rn loc fnr accprnKlino onH checking the ballots and arranging them by precincts may be - disre- ! garded. | 2. All choices marked for members of the council or said school trustees in office, and members who have resigned from the council or school trustees since the last elec- i tion of said councilmen or trustees, | or for candidates who have become ' ineligible for the council or have ex- { pressed to the election authorities in 1 writing their desre to withdraw t shall be disregarded. Ail other candidates at the original election shall be treated as eligible in the recount and the ballots sorted and counted according to the choices marked on them for such candidates. 3. The number of councilmen and trustees of Jhe school to be elected shall be equal to the number of vacancies. <b) If a vacancy occurs which cannot be filled by the foregoing procedure, the council may by a majority vote of the remaining members appoint a qualified person to fill It, both for the vacanciy in the council and the trustees of the school, for the remainder of the unexpired term. (c) If all the places on the council or trustees of the school should I for anv cause become vacant at L once and the vacancies cannot be filled by the foregoing procedure, the election authorities shall call a special election of members to serve for the remainder of the unexpired term, except that if a regular election for members of the council to 9erve for Ithe next regular term has I been held already, or is to be held In less than sixty days after the oci curring of the vacancies, such a spe- I icial election need not be held and , the members elected to the council at the regular election shall take ! offln?. forthwith or ?s soon as the regular election is completed. All special elections shall be held in accordance with the provisions of this charter applicable thereto. . ARTICLE 9 SECTION 84: That aa the present term of the five members of the trustees of the Kings Mountain Graded School District shall expire, dating from the second Tuesday after the first Monday in May 1947, there shall be elected on the second Tuesday after the first Monday in May 1949, and biennially thereafter. .... . . .... ' . ILD. KINGS MOUNTAIN. N. C a trustee or trustees for said tv.ng Mountain graded school ,: <iistrie wnose term of office shall be for on ly two years. There shall be eiectei one trustee for said schoot distric from each city ward, as hereinbefor described, except all territory with in the Ktn^s Mountain Gradei School District situated outsiae ml coporate limits of the city and oi the East side of the Southern Rail road shall be added to City Wan No. 3; and all territory Witnin th< Kings Mountain Graded School Dis trict situated outside the corporati limits of the city and on the Wes side of the Southern Railroad shal be added to City Ward No. 4. SECTION 85: That it shall be th< duty of the city council of the citj of Kings Mountain to declare 3 what place ? places in each wart the election |iall be held and saic board or council in its discretioi may provide for the election of tw< or more wards to be held in one ward but that separate voting pla ces shall be hart for each ward; tha said council shall give due notici of the establishment of said votinf places by publication in some news paper in the city four weeks befor* each election and by posting a no tice in five public places in said city one in each ward. A new registra tion as provided under the genera election laws of North Caroline shall be determined upon and or dered as the said city council maj find advisable from time to time and they shall appoint a registrai for each regular city election, on* in each .ward, and shall give notie? of registration by posting a notici in a public place in each ward giv ing the name of the Registrar anc the time and place for registration Any and ail elections shaii be hek and conducted in accordance to the election laws of the State as sneri fied in this Charter. That in all e lections heid h'ereunder a poll shal be kept of voters voting in said elec lions and shall be preserved and filed with the city clerk togethei tvith the ballot boxes containing ballots cast in said election togethei with the registration books. That in the second day after any election held hereunder the City Council for the City of Kings Mountain shall invite the successful candilates for any and all said offices to meet with them at the City Hall at en o'clock a. m. and shall then and there have administered to the successful candidates for the differ;nt offices the oath as required by law and turn over to them all of the papers, documents, and soforth which are incident to or appurtenant to the offices which they have been elected. , ARTICLE 10 SECTION 86: Any officer or employee whom the city manager, or a lead of any office* department ot agency, may appoint a successor, nay be removed by the manager 01 ither appointing officer at any ime, subject however to a public tearing before the city council in he event said officer or employee lesires same, the decision of the manager either appointing officei shall not be final, and there shall be an appeal therefrom to the city council who shajl act as a court tc letermine the fairness or the un:airnes? of said charges; at such tearing the person, officer or employee who has been removed may ireserg such evidence as he or she nay see fit to prove or to substaniate their contention that they have leen dismissed unfairly. The final lecision shall rest with the city :ouncil as to whether the said offi:er or employee dismissed by the hty manager or the head of any office, department or agency, shall be 'inally discharged. SECTION ST: Tne city manager, he heads of. all departments, and >uch other officers of the city as nay be designated by vote of the :ounciJ, shall be entiled to sit in he council, but shall have no vote herein. The city manager shall lave the right to take part in the iiscussion in all matters coming beore the council, and the directors tnd other officers shall be entitled :o take part in all discussions of the council relating to the respective of:lces, departments or agencies. SECTION 88: The council, the city rranager, or any person or commit ee. authorized by eKher of them shall have power to Inquire into the conduct of any office, department igency or officer of the city and to nake investigations as to munici)al affairs ,and for that purpose nay subpoena witnesses, adminiser oaths, and compel the production >ooks. papers, and other evidence, failure to obey subppena or to proluce books, papers, or other evilence as ordered under the -provisons of this section shall constitute i misdemeanor and shall be punshable by fine not to exceed $25.00 ?r by imprisonments not to exceed >ne month, or both. SECTION 89: All records and acrounts of every office, department, ?r agency of the city shall be open n InfinortUn Ku anv s?IH-7An #nu V .....f-V WIIJ V??4?<VI?| BtlJ jresentative of a citizen's organizaion or any rrjiresentative of the iress at all reasonable times and inder reasonable regulations esablished by the city manager, ex:ept records and documents the disclosure of which would tend to deeat the lawful purpose which they ire intended to accomplish. SECTION 90: No member of the council or any officer or employee >f the cfty shall have a financial inerest, direct, or indirect, or by reaon of ownership of stock in any corporation, in any contract or in iny sales to the city or to a contract >n supplying the. cfty any land or ights, or Interest in land or materal supplies or services. Any willful violation of this section shall constitute a malfesance In office, ind any officer or employee of the city found guilty thereof shall thereupon forfeit his office or position Vny violation of this section with he knowledge expressed or implied cf the person or corporation contacting with the city shall rendei cheir contract voidable by the city manager or the council. SECTION 91: The director of *i nance, the tax collector, and such Dther officers and employee* of th< council made by general erdinanct required so to do, shall give bone In such amount and such surety at -r . ' # . - * t s iiiay oe approve^ o> me council. ( The premiums on such bonds may - bo paid by the city. ' i I SECTION 92: tat Every officer of <. the city shall, before entering upon e I the duties of his office, take and - 'subscribe to the following oath or i affirmation, to he filed and kept in e the office of the city clerk: * a (b> "f solemnly swear 'or affirm' - that I will support the constitution 1 and will obey the laws of the United e States and the State of North Caro Una. that 1 will, in all respects, obs serve the provisions of the charter t J and ordinances of the City of Kings j 1 r Mountain, and will faithfully dis' charge the duties of the office of ? Councilman.'' A like oath vhall be , ! taken by the trustees of the Kings t Mountain City Schools, i SECTION 93: la) AH laws and I parts of laws relating to or affecting l ! the City of Kings Mountain in force > when this charter shall be adopted ? and become effective are hereby re pealed and supersede to the extent t that the same are inconsistent with i the provisions of this charter; PRO j VIDED, however, no ordinance herc ! tofore passed by .the eouncilmen of ?, the City of Kings Mountain shall be declared null and void by this char; ter. and to declare any of said ordinances heretofore passed invalid 1 of to repeal same it shall be neees i sary for the city council to pass di rectly upon same and repeal same r as provided by the general laws of. , North Carolina. r ?b) In so far as the provisions of ? this charter are the same in terms or ; in substance and effect as proyis? ions of taw in, force when this char ter shall take' effect, relating to or I : ? _ 4i. i aiiecLinx ine ciiyoi Kings Muun . tain, tho provisions of this charter i are intended not to be a new enact? ment hut a continuation of such pro. visions.of law. and this charter shall be so construed and applied. I SECTION 94:' All persons holding, administrative office at the time I this charter takes effect shall con tinue in office and in the perform; ance of their duty until provision ' shall have been made in aecordan: ce therewith for the performance of such duties or the discontinuance t of such office. The powers conferred i and the duties imposed upon any office, department or agency pf the i city by the laws of the State shall : if such office, department or agen- i i cy be aboijshed by this charter, or t under its authority, be thereafter exercised and discharged by the office, department or agency designa1 ted by the council unless otherwise l provided herein. i SECTION 95: AH records, proper: ty and equipment of any office, department or agency or part thereof, ^11 the powers and duties of which I are assigned to any other office de- I partment or agency by this charter, 1 shall be transferred and delivered to the office, department or agency < ! to which such powers and duties are . so assigned. If part of the powers . and duties of any office, department or agency or part thereof are by this 1 charter assigned to another office, , department or agency, all records, . property and equipment relating ex. cluslvely thereto shall be transfer, red and delivered to the office, de, partment or agency to which such powers and duties are so assigned. I SECTION 96: AH contracts entered into by the eitv. 'or for Its b#>npfir. prior to the taking effect of this . charter, shall continue in full force and effect. Public improvements for , which legislative steps have been taken under laws or charter provisions existing at the time this charter takes effect may be carried to completion and as nearly as practi cal in accordance with the provisions of such existing laws and charter provisions. SECTION-: 97 No action or proceeding, civil or criminal, pending , at the time when this charter shall take effect, brought by or against the city or any office, department or agency or officer thereof, shall be affected or abated by the adoption of this charter or by anything therein contained; but all such actions; i1 or proceedings may . be continued notwithstanding the functions, powers and duties of any office, de- | partment or agency or officer party i f thereto may be or under this charter j be assigned or transferred to ano-t ther office, department or agency or officer, but in that event the same may be prosecuted or defended by the head of the office, department or agency to which such functions po- | wers and duties have been assigned or transferred by or under this chartef. SECTION 98: Amendment and repeal of charter. This charter shall be amended or repealed as provided under Article *3 of Subchapter II, Municipal Corporation Act of 1917 same being sections 160-353 to and i including rtec+ion 160-363 of the General Statutes of North Carolina, 1943, including any and all amendments thereto. i SECTION 99: This charter when adopted by the voters of the City of Kings Mountain, shall be known j i ami may be cited as the "CouncilManager-Charter of the City . of Kings Mountain." SECTION 100: If any section, or1 part of a section of this charter . shall be held invalid by a court of comp, tent Jurisdiction, such holding shall not affect the remainder of this chartef.nor the context in which such section or part of section so held invalid may appear, except to ,-i I the extent that an entire section or part of section may be inseparably j connected in meaning and effect]1 with the section or part of section to which such holding shall directly ^ Section 101: For the purpose of nominating and electing members of the council, provisions of this charter*shall be in effect for any , regular municipal election held not t less than fifty days from and after their approval by the electors of the city. For all other purposes this i charter shall be in effect from and j after it is declared by the present | city council to be adopted by a vote of the citizenship or electors of the ' city of Kings Mountain. ARTICLE 11 SECTION 102: That the city eouni cil of the cjty of Kings Mountain > shall atiall time* have the right and > power of condemnation of private I {property for public use as provided I by the laws of State of North Caro cw,?, " T'rrf-Tj ? . '. < . > j.y .fif.iHMt. , Pc~0 Three ima, governing municipal corpora; nuns and ail proceedings for too condemnation of private property for public use shall be as proserin ed by the general laws of North c uronna governing municipal cor, porations. SECTION 103: That the city couti ;cil shall have no right to appropriate any funds from any source vvhmsover except for necessary expenses as provided for under the Con stitution and Statutory Law of the State, governing Municipal Corporalions. SECTION 104: That in addition to the- powers given to the City Council, and as hereinbefore enumerated, they shall have the power under I this charter to fix salaries of all Of ficers of the City including the em ployment of a City Attorney, Heal th Officer, Building Inspector, and other personnel necessary to carry into effect the provisions of this charter under the general laws of the State applicable to Municipal Corporations. SECTION 105: That under and bv virtue of this Charter the City of Kings Mountain shall have all fran chises, property and rights in and to property which it now has under its present Charter, and shall"be liable and answerable under all con tracts, obligations and liabilities, including notes, bonds and other indebtedness, now existing: hereby validating, ratifying and confirming all contracts and obligations of the City made prior to the ratification ' of this Charter. ' ' SECTION 106- That all laws and pl;j llf I.?tUV enrini ?m I oMc .M.'q. .J|M v I Cl 1 C* v I ."5 \Jl IIIC Legislature and formed charters heretofore enacted by the Lo'gisla fare or In a Vote of the people of the Ciiv of Kings Mountain in conflict .vi:-h this Charter are hereby repealed. SECTION 107:. That this Charier shall be .'In full force and effect from and after its adoption by a vote of the Electors of the City of Kings Mountain in accordance tq a Special Act of the 1947, Legislature. Charter B THE CHARTER OF THE CITY OF KINGS MOUNTAIN. NORTH CAROLINA ARTICLE J SECTION 1: See '?*ciion 1 of Charter A. SECTION 2: The municipal government provided by this Charter shall be known as the "CouncilMayor-Government." Pursuant to Its provisions and subject only the limitations imposed by the ?State Constitution and by this Charter, ail powers of the City shall be vested in an elective council, here inafter referred to as "the council," which shall enact local legislation, adopt budgets, determine policies, under and by the advice of the Mayor, who shall execute the laws and administer the government of the City. All powers of the City shall be exercised in the manner prescribed by this Charter, the Constitution and general laws of the State. ? SECTION 3: See-Seotion 3 Charter A. SECTION 3-A: See Section 3 A Charter A. SECTION 3-B: See Section 3-B Charter A.' ARTICLE 2 SECTION 4: See Section 4 Charter A. SECTION 5: See Section 5 Charter A. SECTION 6: See Section 6 Char ter A. SECTIQN 7: See Section 7 Charter A. SECTION 8: See Section 8 Charter A. except (1). SECTION 9: The Council shall invest the Mayor of the City by an ordinance duly adopted as provid ed in this Charter/with the powers to perform the duties in this Charter provided. SECTION 10: See Section 11 Charter A, substitute Mayor for City Manager. . .. SECTION 11: See Section 12 Charter A. SLVriON 12: See Section 13 Charter A. SECTION 13: See Section 14 Charter A. . SECTION 14: See Section 15 Charter A. SECTION 15: See Section 16 Charter A. SECTION J6; See Section 17 Charter A. SECTION 17: See Section 18 Charter A. SECTION 18: See Section 19 Charter A. SECTION 19: See Section 20 Charter A. SECTION 20: See Section 21 Charter A. SECTION 21: See Section 22 Charter A, substitute Mayor fof City Manager. ARTICLE 3 SECTION 22: See Section 24 Charter A, substitute Mayor for City Manager. SECTION 23: See Section 25 Charter A. substitute Mayor for City Manager. SEC HON 24; See Section 26 Charter A, substitute Mayor for City Manager. SECTION 25: See Section 27 Charter A, substitute Mayor for City Manager. SECTION 26: See Section 28 Charter A, substitute Mayor of City Manager. ARTICLE 4 SECTION 27: See Section 29 Charter A. SECTION 28: See Section 30 Charter A, substitute Mayor for City Manager. SECTION 29: See Section 31, Char ter A, substitute Mayor for City Manager. SECTION 30: See Section 32 Charter A. SECTION 311 See Section 33 Charter A. SECTION 32: See Section 34 Char-, ter A. ? SECTION 33: See Section 35 Charter A. SECTION 34: See Section 36 Charter A. SECTION 35: See Section 37 Charter A. Cont'd on page five) Ju_