1913_private laws_333_8
CHAPTER 332 AN ACT TO CREATE THE CITY OF HENDERSON AND TO PRESCRIBE A CHARTER THEREFOR. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: CITY CREATED.
The executive and administrative powers, authority, and duties of the city shall be distributed among five divisions, as follows: i I. Administration. II. Finance. III. Health. IV. Public Works. V. Property. The city council shall determine the policies to be pursued and the work to be undertaken in each division, but each supervisor shall have full power to carry out the policies or to have the work performed in his division as directed by the city council. ADMINISTRATION. (a) The mayor shall be ex officio supervisor of the administration and the chief executive officer of the city. He shall have supervision of the police and fire departments, of weights and measures, of any other city business not otherwise provided for in this act or by ordinance, and shall have the further powers and discharge the further duties elsewhere in this act assigned to him. His part of the city administration, so far as it differs from that of the other supervisors, shall be included under the designation of the Division of Administration. FINANCE, (b) The Supervisor of Finance shall have supervision over the estimates of the probable expenditures of the city government for each fiscal year; over the collection of all revenues of the city; over the several city sinking funds; over the purchase of all city supplies; over all city printing; and in general over all financial affairs of the city for which, provision is not otherwise made herein. HEALTH. (ec) The Supervisor of Health shall have supervision over public health, city hospitals, care of the poor, inspection of milk, foods, and vinegar, inspection of animals, collection of garbage and ashes, and the work of the city physician. + PUBLIC WORKS, (d@) The Supervisor of Public Works shall have supervision of streets, sidewalks, parks, street lighting, street watering, public water supply, sewers, bridges, electrical affairs, inspection of wires, and engineering. PUBLIC PROPERTY. (e) The Supervisor of Public Property shall have supervision of the inspection, construction, and maintenance of public buildings, of building laws, and the inspection of buildings and of cemeteries. REDISTRIBUTION OF DUTIES AMONG DIVISIONS. (f) All executive and administrative powers, authority and duties not otherwise provided for in this act may be assigned to a suitable division by the city council by ordinance, and changes in the assignments made in this act may be made by ordinance by the affirmative vote of the city council. POWER OF APPOINTMENT AND REMOVAL, .(g) Subject to such regulations as may be prescribed by the city council, the employees in each department shall be appointed and removed by the head of that department. Nothing in this section shall in any way change the laws governing the civil service, if such laws be enacted by the city council. RECORDS AND REPORTS. (W) Each of said supervisors shall keep a record book in which shall be recorded a brief but clear and comprehensive record of all affairs of the division under his charge as soon as performed, and shall quarterly render to the city council a full report of all operations of such division, and shall annually, and oftener if required by the city council, make a synopsis thereof for publication. All such records shall be open for public inspection. The city council shall provide for the publication of such annual or other reports and of such parts of the quarterly reports or of such other information regarding city affairs as it may deem advisable. FISCAL YEAR DEFINED. (i) The fiscal year of the city shall commence on the first Monday in September succeeding the general municipal election, and continue until the first Monday in September of the calendar year following. ESTIMATES, (j) On or before the fifteenth day of July of each year the supervisors shall send to the Supervisor of Finance a careful detailed estimate in writing of the appropriations required for the business and proper conduct of their respective divisions during the next ensuing fiscal year. COUNCIL MAKES APPROPRIATIONS AND FIXES TAX LEVY, (%) At the regular meeting in August in each year the Supervisor of Finance shall submit to the city council an estimate of the probable expenditures of the city government for the next ensuing fiscal year, stating the amount required to meet the interest and maturing bonds of the outstanding indebtedness of the city, and showing specifically the amount necessary to be provided for each fund and department; also an estimate of the amount of income from all other sources of. revenue, exclusive of taxes upon property, and the probable amount required to be levied and raised by taxation to defray all expenses and liabilities of the city. The city council shall thereupon determine the sum to be raised by taxation and make the appropriations in detail for the next ensuing fiscal year, but shall not be thereby prevented from making emergency or deficiency appropriations as necessity may require. No sum appropriated for a specific purpose shall be expended for any other purpose unless specially authorized by vote of the city council; nor shall any expenditure be made or liability incurred by or in behalf of the city until an appropriation has been duly voted by the city council to meet the same.