1965_session laws_37_16
CHAPTER 36 AN ACT TO REVISE AND CONSOLIDATE THE CHARTER OF THE TOWN OF FARMVILLE, NORTH CAROLINA. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: Corporate Powers
Duties of the Town Attorney. The town attorney shall be an attorney at law who shall] have qualified to practice in the State of North Carolina. He shall be the chief legal advisor of and attorney for the town and al] departments and officers thereof in matters relating to their official powers and duties. It shall be his duty, either personally 87 or by such assistants as he may designate to perform all services incident to the department of law; to attend all meetings of the board of commissioners; to give advice in writing when so requested, to the board of commissioners or the director of any department; to prosecute or defend, as the case may be, all suits or cases to which the town may be a party; to prepare all contracts, bonds and other instruments in writing in which the town is concerned, and to endorse on each, his approval of the form and correctness thereof, and to perform such other duties of a legal nature as the board of commissioners may require. In addition to the duties imposed upon the town attorney by this Charter or required by ordinance or resolution of the board of commissioners, he shall perform any duties imposed upon the chief legal officers of municipalities by law.