CHAPTER 28 AN ACT TO AMEND, REVISE AND CONSOLIDATE THE STATUTES THAT CONSTITUTE THE CHARTER OF THE CITY OF FAYETTEVILLE. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: ARTICLE 1 THE City OF FAYETTEVILLE
Section 2. Polling places. The board of aldermen shall designate a polling place, or as many polling places as it shall deem advisable, at which the municipal elections shall be held, and shall give notice by one or more publications in a newspaper published in the city of the polling place or places so designated, and of any change that may be made therein from time to time.
Section 2. Qualifications for commissioners. The members of said commission shall be resident freeholders and taxpayers of the city of Fayetteville, and shall be men of recognized ability and good business judgment and standing who, in the opinion of the said board of aldermen, can and will perform their official duties to the best interest of said city and its inhabitants.
Section 2. Aldermen qualify; when and how. On the Monday next succeeding the day of election the aldermen elected shall qualify by taking the following oath or affirmation, to wit: SS Depusats ih iaue cee PSE Ne wie ad CRUE SIA ds , do solemnly swear that I will truly and impartially perform the duties of alderman to the city of Fayetteville according to the best of my skill, ability and judgment; so help me God. Thereupon the aldermen shall organize as a board for the transaction of business and thereby shall assume the duties and responsibilities of the office.
Section 2. Establish hospitals, pesthouses, quarantine, etc. The board of aldermen may acquire, establish, and maintain a hospital or hospitals, or pesthouses, slaughterhouses, rendering plants, incinerators and crematories in the city limits or within three miles thereof; may stop, detain, examine, or keep in a pesthouse or house of detention persons having or suspected of having any infectious, contagious, or other communicable disease; may quarantine the city or any part thereof; may cause all persons in the city limits to be vaccinated; may, without incurring liabilities to the owner, remove, fumigate, or destroy furniture, bedding, clothing, or other property which may be found to be tainted or infected with any contagious or infectious disease, and may do all other proper and reasonable things tc prevent or stamp out any contagious or infectious disease, and to preserve better the health of the citizens. All expenses incurred by the city in disinfecting or caring for any person or persons, by authority of this section, may be recovered by it from the person, persons, or property cared for; and when expense is incurred in caring for property, the same shall become a lien on such property. Any person who shall attempt by force, or by threat of violence, to prevent his removal or that of any other person to the pesthouse, house of detention, or hospital, or who shall in any way interfere with any officer while performing any of the duties allowed by this article, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor.
Section 2. Resolution requiring sidewalks to be laid. The board of aldermen shall have authority to order and direct by suitable resolution that sidewalk or sidewalks be laid upon any street or streets or sections, or portions thereof, within the city in conformity with plans and specifications prescribed and fixed by the board, and to require, in the boards discretion, that the owner or owners of any lot or lots fronting and abutting upon any such street or streets or portion thereof shall lay such sidewalk across the frontage of such lot or lots at the cost of such owner or owners. When any such resolution is adopted by the board, it shall give personal notice to the owner or owners of any lot or lots affected thereby if such owner or owners can be found within the city, but if such owner or owners cannot be found within the city, then publication of such resolution once in each of two consecutive weeks in some newspaper published in the city shall be deemed and held to be sufficient notice. If the owner or owners of any lot or lots across the frontage of which it is required that a sidewalk be laid shall fail to comply with Private5 the terms of such resolution within the time therein specified, then the city of Fayetteville shall cause such sidewalk or sidewalks to be laid at its expense and the entire cost thereof and interest shall thereupon be especially assessed and collected from such lot or lots in the manner prescribed by chapter fifty-six, article nine of the Consolidated Statutes of North Carolina of nineteen hundred nineteen.
Section 2. Condemnation proceedings. If the city of Fayetteville shall be unable to acquire by purchase, gift or otherwise, any real estate necessary for any of the purposes specified in this charter, it shall have and is hereby given the right to acquire title to the same in the manner and by the special proceedings herein prescribed.
Section 2. Enumeration of powers not exclusive. The foregoing enumeration of particular powers shall not be held or deemed to be exclusive, but in addition to the powers enumerated or implied herein, or appropriate to the exercise thereof, the city shall have and may exercise all other powers which under the Constitution and laws of North Carolina now or hereafter may be granted to cities. Powers proper to be exercised, and not specially enumerated herein, shall be exercised and enforced in the manner prescribed herein; or when not prescribed herein, in such manner as shall be provided by ordinance or resolution of the board of aldermen.
Section 2. A body corporate with right of succession. The inhabitants of the city of Fayetteville shall continue as heretofore a body politic and corporate under the name and style of The City of Fayetteville and by that name shall have perpetual succession, may sue and be sued, may contract and be contracted with, may acquire and hold all such property, real and personal, as may be devised, bequeathed, sold or in any manner conveyed to it, and may invest, sell or dispose thereof, and may have a common seal and alter and renew the same at pleasure, and may have and exercise all the powers, rights, and privileges necessary for its proper government or usually appertaining to municipal corporations.