Daily Bulletin
ACTIONS BY THE NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY
Institute of Government, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Legislative Reporting Service, Box 7294 State Legislative Building, Raleigh, NC 27611
Phone 919.733.2484 Fax 919.715.3464
House Legislative Day 4 Vol. 1999, No. 4 Senate Legislative Day 4
Tuesday, February 2, 1999
BILLS INTRODUCED TODAY
BILL#
SHORT TITLE
IDEN COMMITTEE
GS INDEX
S 17
ECON. DEVELOPMENT DISTRICTS
FINANCE
18B
S 18
CARTHAGE CHARTER CONSOLIDATION
ST. GOV.
MOORE
S 19
UNC TUITION/SCHOLARSHIP/MILITARY
EDUCATION
116
S 20
LOW-WEALTH SCHOOL SUPP. FUNDS
EDUCATION
APPROP
ППГЧПЙ
S 21
1999 N.C. LOTTERY
FINANCE
143D, 147, 105, 14, 150B
H 17
SEXUAL ASSAULT FUNDS
APPROPRIATIONS
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APPROP
SENATE BILLS
SUMMARIES OF
BILLS INTRODUCED TODAY
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1999
STATE LIBRARY OF NORTH C/.T.C
RALEIGH
S 17. ECON. DEVELOPMENT DISTRICTS. TO MODIFY THE DEFINITION OF "ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT
AND TOURIST DISTRICT." Amends cited definition in GS 18B-1006(I) (concerning issuance of mixed beverage
sale permits to qualified businesses in such a district) to eliminate requirement that a legislative act establishing a
district be enacted before July 1, 1997.
Intro, by Weinstein.
Ref. to Finance GS 18B
S 18. CARTHAGE CHARTER CONSOLIDATION. TO REVISE AND CONSOLIDATE THE CHARTER OF THE
TOWN OF CARTHAGE. Council consists of five members and a mayor, elected at-large using nonpartisan
plurality method. Establishes staggered four-year terms, without affecting current terms. Vacancies on council will
be filled for remainder of unexpired term, despite contrary provisions of GS 160A-63.
Town operates under council-manager plan. Specifically authorizes manager to appoint town clerk and tax
collector and their deputies and other nonelected town officers, department heads, and employees, except town
attorney (appointed by council). Specifies that mayor and council may not take part in the appointment or removal
of town employees, etc., and must deal with officers and employees in administrative service only through the
manager, acting manager, or interim manager, except for the purpose of inquiry or for consultation with the town
attorney. Mayor and council may not give orders or directions to any subordinate of the manager, etc., either
publicly or privately. Council may authorize manager to make final settlement of certain small claims against the
town, with advance approval by town attorney.
Allows council to make specified street and sidewalk improvements without a petition. Authorizes council to
establish charges for the cost of removing abandoned, junked, or nuisance motor vehicles from private property;
in specified cases charges may become a lien against the real property from which vehicle was removed. Allows
town, with approval of board of county commissioners, to extend its extraterritorial area up to two miles outside
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