Using his database, you can find out how every town is governed and the statutory citations. Where a town with a mayor/council form of government hires an administrator to run the departments, this is also shown. According to his data, of the municipalities in Pamlico County, Minnesott Beach and Oriental are Council/Manager governments. The rest are all Mayor/Council.
The professor provides statutory cites for each town. For Oriental they are:
SL 1993, c. 4
GS 163-279
GS 160A-101
Pr. 1899, c. 184
SL 1991(92), c. 878
You can look it up.
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I looked at the professor's list, and yes it says we have a Council-Manager form. I read all of the laws he cited, too. I saw nothing in any of them that remotely suggests that Oriental has a Council Manager form of government. Perhaps he made a mistake. Or perhaps Oriental went through the legal requirements to change its form of government from the original Mayor-Council form. Have you found any evidence of that? The Town web site has the 1989 law and the 1991 law (but not the 1993 law) but nothing that suggests the Commissioners did anything to change the form of government.....
Looking at other towns' amendments on the Secretary of State site, I find GS 160A-101 often cited in changes to council-manager. There is no amendment listed for Oriental on the Secretary of State site that references 160A-101. So where did that come from? Mysterious.
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