A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT TO REVISE AND CONSOLIDATE THE CHARTER OF THE TOWN OF MT. PLEASANT.
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
SECTION 1.  The Charter of the Town of Mt. Pleasant is revised and consolidated to read as follows:
"THE CHARTER OF THE TOWN OF Mt. Pleasant."
SECTION 2.  The purpose of this act is to revise the Charter of the Town of Mt. Pleasant and to consolidate herein certain acts concerning the property, affairs, and government of the Town.
SECTION 3.  The following acts or portions of acts, having served the purposes for which they were enacted, or having been consolidated into this act, are hereby repealed:
Chapter 208, Private Laws of 1858‑59
Chapter 77, Private Laws of 1883
Chapter 188, Private Laws of 1901.
SECTION 4.  No provision of this act is intended, nor shall be construed, to affect in any way any rights or interests (whether public or private):
(1)	Now vested or accrued, in whole or in part, the validity of which might be sustained or preserved by reference to any provisions of law repealed by this act.
(2)	Derived from, or which might be sustained or preserved in reliance upon, action heretofore taken pursuant to or within the scope of any provisions of law repealed by this act.
SECTION 5.  No law heretofore repealed expressly or by implication, and no law granting authority which has been exhausted, shall be revived by:
(1)	The repeal herein of any act repealing such law, or
(2)	Any provision of this act that disclaims an intention to repeal or affect enumerated or designated laws.
SECTION 6.  All existing ordinances and resolutions of the Town of Mt. Pleasant and all existing rules or regulations of departments or agencies of the Town of Mt. Pleasant not inconsistent with the provisions of this act shall continue in full force and effect until repealed, modified, or amended.
SECTION 7.  No action or proceeding of any nature (whether civil or criminal, judicial or administrative, or otherwise) pending at the effective date of this act by or against the Town of Mt. Pleasant or any of its departments or agencies shall be abated or otherwise affected by the adoption of this act.
SECTION 8.  If any part of this act or the application thereof to any person or circumstance is held to be invalid, such invalidity shall not affect other provisions or applications of this act which can be given effect without the invalid provision or application, and to this end the provisions of this act are declared to be severable.
SECTION 9.  Whenever a reference is made in this act to a particular provision of the General Statutes, and such provision is later amended, repealed, or superceded, the reference shall be deemed amended to refer to the amended General Statute or to the General Statute which most nearly corresponds to the statutory provision which is repealed or superceded.
SECTION 10.  This act is effective when it becomes law.