§ 153A-48. Ordinance book. - North Carolina Statutes

§ 153A‑48. Ordinance book.

The clerk shall maintain an ordinance book, separate from the minutebook of the board of commissioners. The ordinance book shall be indexed andshall be available for public inspection in the office of the clerk. Except asprovided in this section and in G.S. 153A‑47, each county ordinance shallbe filed and indexed in the ordinance book.

The budget ordinance and any amendments thereto, any bond order, andany other ordinance of limited interest or transitory nature may be omittedfrom the ordinance book. However, the ordinance book shall contain a sectionshowing the caption of each omitted ordinance and the page in thecommissioners' minute book at which the ordinance may be found.

If a county adopts and issues a code of its ordinances, countyordinances need be recorded and indexed in the ordinance book only until theyare placed in the codification. (1963, c. 1060, ss. 1, 1 1/2; 1965, cc. 388, 567, 1083, 1158; 1967, c.495, s. 2; 1969, c. 36, s. 1; 1971, c. 702, ss. 1‑3; 1973, c. 822, s. 1.)