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SB 79

Boiling Springs Charter Revisions.

2025-2026 Session Introduced by Ted Alexander

Consolidates Boiling Springs' local laws into one modern charter and formalizes a council-manager government, clarifying elections, administration, and boundary records.

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Bill Summary · SB 79

SB 79 — Boiling Springs Charter Revisions

Status: Reported Favorably (Committee Substitute)
Introduced: January 15, 2025

Main purpose / intent

SB 79 revises, modernizes, and consolidates the municipal charter for the Town of Boiling Springs (Cleveland County, NC). The bill replaces multiple older local acts with a single, updated charter that clarifies the town’s corporate powers, governance structure, election rules, administrative organization, and recordkeeping obligations.

Key provisions / changes

  • Consolidation and repeal

    • Consolidates existing local acts governing Boiling Springs into one charter document.
    • Repeals several obsolete local acts (e.g., Private Laws/Session Laws listed in the charter preamble) while preserving rights and obligations that have already arisen under prior law.

  • Governing body and elections

    • Confirms a five‑member Town Council elected at large and a separately elected Mayor.
    • Establishes staggered 4‑year terms: three council seats in one election, the Mayor plus the other two seats two years later.
    • Requires nonpartisan municipal elections; winners are determined by nonpartisan plurality (per G.S. 163‑292).
    • Vacancies filled under G.S. 160A‑63.

  • Council leadership and meetings

    • Mayor is presiding officer and votes only to break ties.
    • Council elects a Mayor Pro Tempore.
    • Regular, special, and emergency meeting rules follow general law.

  • Administration / council‑manager government

    • Formalizes the council‑manager form of government (Part 2 of Article 7, Ch.160A).
    • Council appoints a Town Manager who serves at the council’s pleasure and is the town’s chief administrative official.
    • Town Manager authority explicitly includes appointment of Town Clerk, Finance Officer, Tax Collector, and Police Chief; manager may create or reassign positions as permitted by law.

  • Official map / boundaries

    • Requires maintenance of an official municipal boundary map in the Town Clerk’s office; updates must be filed with the NC Secretary of State, the Cleveland County Register of Deeds, and the County Board of Elections when boundaries change.

  • Miscellaneous

    • Town retains customary corporate powers and all powers conferred by state law.
    • Existing town ordinances and resolutions remain in force unless inconsistent with the new charter.

Who is affected

  • Town of Boiling Springs elected officials, town staff (manager, clerk, finance officer, tax collector, police chief), and residents.
  • Cleveland County (changes to municipal boundary records and filings).
  • Voters of Boiling Springs (procedures for elections clarified).

Procedural / timeline notes

  • Introduced January 15, 2025.
  • Reported favorably by committee as a substitute (status shown as “Reptd Fav Com Substitute”).
  • The bill consolidates local law and provides a clean, modern charter text for future town governance. Existing contracts, obligations, and school‑related acts are preserved unless explicitly inconsistent.
  • If enacted, implementing steps include updating the town’s official map and making required filings with state and county offices.

Practical impact

SB 79 is principally organizational and administrative: it clarifies roles, election timing, recordkeeping, and administrative authority under a single charter. It is intended to reduce legal fragmentation, improve clarity for town governance and elections, and modernize administrative responsibilities with limited direct fiscal impact.

Compiled from official sources — confirm details with the bill’s official record.

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