GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA
1993 SESSION

CHAPTER 279
HOUSE BILL 520

AN ACT AMENDING THE CHARTER OF THE CITY OF DURHAM TO AUTHORIZE THE GIVING OF NOTICE OF SPECIAL MEETINGS OF THE CITY COUNCIL OR ANY OTHER PUBLIC BODY OF THE CITY BY MEANS OF FACSIMILE TRANSMISSION OR ELECTRONIC MAIL.

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

Section 1.  Section 11(2) of the Charter of the City of Durham, the same being Chapter 671, 1975 Session Laws, is amended by adding the following paragraph at the end:
"The City Clerk may give notice of a special or emergency meeting of the City Council, or any other public body of the City, to any member of the City Council and to any person, newspaper, wire service, radio station, or television station entitled to such notice pursuant to G.S. 143-318.12(b), by means of facsimile transmission or electronic mail, when such form of notification has been requested in writing and filed with the City Clerk by any such member of the City Council, person, newspaper, wire service, radio station, or television station.  The term 'public body' as used in this paragraph has the meaning prescribed by G.S. 143-318.10(b)."
Sec. 2.  This act is effective upon ratification.
In the General Assembly read three times and ratified this the 5th day of July, 1993.

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Dennis A. Wicker
President of the Senate

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Daniel Blue, Jr.
Speaker of the House of Representatives