North Carolina General Statutes 160A-146. Council to organize city government
The council may create, change, abolish, and consolidate offices, positions, departments, boards, commissions, and agencies of the city government and generally organize and reorganize the city government in order to promote orderly and efficient administration of city affairs, subject to the following limitations:
(1) The council may not abolish any office, position, department, board, commission, or agency established and required by law;
(2) The council may not combine offices or confer certain duties? on the same officer when such action is specifically forbidden by law;
(3) The council may not discontinue or assign elsewhere any functions or duties assigned by law to a particular office, position, department, or agency. (1971, c. 698, s. 1.)
Terms Used In North Carolina General Statutes 160A-146
- Council: means the governing board of a city. See North Carolina General Statutes 160A-1
- following: when used by way of reference to any section of a statute, shall be construed to mean the section next preceding or next following that in which such reference is made; unless when some other section is expressly designated in such reference. See North Carolina General Statutes 12-3