PINETOPS CHARTER REVISED & CONSOLIDATED.

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View NCGA Bill Details(link is external)2025-2026 Session
Senate Bill 206 (Local) Filed Thursday, February 27, 2025
AN ACT TO REVISE AND CONSOLIDATE THE CHARTER OF THE TOWN OF PINETOPS.
Intro. by Smith.

Status: Ref To Com On Rules and Operations of the Senate (Senate action) (Mar 3 2025)
S 206

Bill Summaries:

  • Summary date: Feb 27 2025 - View Summary

    Revises and consolidates the Charter of the Town of Pinetops to now provide the following.

    Provides for the Town of Pinetop's (Town)'s incorporation, grants the Town general powers, and sets out the Town's corporate boundaries.

    Establishes the five-member Town Board of Commissioners (Board) and the Mayor as the Town's governing body, with the mayor elected to serve a four-year term and Board members serving staggered four-year terms. Includes mayor and member residency requirements. Sets forth the duties of the Mayor. Requires the Board to select a Mayor Pro Tempore from among its members and details their powers. Provides for Board meetings, quorum, voting, and filling of vacancies.

    Provides for nonpartisan municipal elections in odd-numbered years. Regarding Board elections, requires all members be elected at-large on a staggered schedule. Authorizes special elections to be held as provided by statutory law and local acts.

    Establishes the Town's operation under the mayor-council form of government in accordance with Part 3 of Article 7 of GS Chapter 160A. Allows the Board to appoint a Town Administrator, with duties as prescribed by the Board. Requires the Board to appoint a Town Attorney. Directs the Board to appoint a Town Clerk and a Finance Director. 

    Requires contracts to be executed in accordance with general law. Requires all money received by the Town or in connection with Town business to be paid into the town's depository; sets out requirements related to the depository and those funds.  Requires annual independent audits of the Town's accounts.

    Specifies the legislative purpose and intent of the act to revise and consolidate the Town Charter. 

    Repeals SL 1921-64 (extra session). 

    Specifies that the Mayor and members of the Board serving on the date this act becomes law will serve until the expiration of their terms or until their successors are elected and qualified. Thereafter, those offices must be  filled as provided in Articles II and III of the Charter contained above

    Specifies that the act does not affect any rights or interests that arose under any provisions repealed by this act.

    Provides for the continued validity of all existing ordinances, resolutions, and other provisions of the Town not inconsistent with the act. Includes a severability clause. Provides a savings clause for pending actions and proceedings.