§ 162B-8 – Enabling authority for emergency interim successors for local offices.
162B-8. Enabling authority for emergency interim successors for local offices. With respect to local offices for which the governing bodies of cities, towns, townships, and counties may enact resolutions or ordinances relative to the manner in which vacancies will be filled or temporary appointments to office made, such governing bodies are hereby authorized to enact […]
§ 162B-9 – Emergency interim successors for local officers.
162B-9. Emergency interim successors for local officers. The provisions of this section shall be applicable to officers of political subdivisions (including, but not limited to counties, cities, towns and townships as well as school, fire, drainage and other municipal corporate districts) not included in G.S. 162B-8. Such governing bodies, pursuant to such regulations as they […]
§ 162B-10 – Formalities of taking office.
162B-10. Formalities of taking office. At the time of their assumption of office, emergency interim successors shall take such oath as may be required for them to exercise the powers and discharge the duties of the office to which they may succeed. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, no person, as a prerequisite to the […]
§ 162B-11 – Period in which authority may be exercised.
162B-11. Period in which authority may be exercised. Emergency interim successors, authorized to act pursuant to this Article, are empowered to exercise the powers and discharge the duties of an office as herein authorized only after an attack upon the State of North Carolina, as defined herein, has occurred. The local governing body, by a […]
§ 162B-12 – Removal of designees.
162B-12. Removal of designees. Until such time as the persons designated as emergency interim successors are authorized to exercise the powers and discharge the duties of an office in accordance with this Article, including G.S. 162B-11 hereof, said persons shall serve in their designated capacities at the pleasure of the designating authority and may be […]
§ 162B-13 – Disputes.
162B-13. Disputes. Any dispute concerning a question of fact arising under this Article with respect to an office in any political subdivision shall be adjudicated by the local governing body and their decision shall be final. (1959, c. 314, s. 9.)
§ 162B-4 – Provisions of Article control over local law.
162B-4. Provisions of Article control over local law. The provisions of this Article shall be effective in the event it shall be employed notwithstanding any statutory, charter or ordinance provision to the contrary or in conflict herewith. (1959, c. 349.)
§ 162B-5 – Short title.
162B-5. Short title. This Article shall be known and may be cited as the North Carolina "Emergency Interim Local Government Executive Succession Act of 1959." (1959, c. 314, s. 1.)
§ 162B-6 – Policy and purpose.
162B-6. Policy and purpose. Because of the existing possibility of attack upon the State of North Carolina of unprecedented size and destructiveness, and in order, in the event of such an attack, to assure continuity of local government through legally constituted leadership, authority and responsibility in offices of political subdivisions of the State of North […]
§ 162B-7 – Definitions.
162B-7. Definitions. Unless otherwise clearly required by the context, as used in this Article: (1) "Attack" means any attack or series of attacks by an enemy of the United States upon the State of North Carolina causing, or which may cause, substantial damage or injury to civilian property or persons in the State in any […]