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33115
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North Carolina’s local governments had high stakes in this year’s legislative session. Important bills dealt with abolition of the property tax on business inventories, highway rights-of-way, billboard regulation, the local option sales tax, among many other issues. David E. Reynolds, executive director of the North Carolina League of Municipalities, discusses these legislative acts and how they will affect the infrastructures of cities and towns.
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28711
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Drug testing of employees in both the public and private sectors of North Carolina involves important policy considerations, including its substantial cost and the legal issues involved. This article examines the Fourth Amendment questions involved when a state or local government drug tests its employees.
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3.Publication of Legal Notices by Holt, Steven Local Government Law Bulletin Vol. Issue 22, Jan 1983
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28709
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North Carolina local governments are frequently authorized or required to publish legal notices in a newspaper. This bulletin traces the requirements of G.S. 1-597 and related statutes.
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28710
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This bulletin discusses the authority of North Carolina local governments to license and regulate the conduct of businesses, and occupations and the statutory and constitutional limitations on the exercise of that authority.
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17982
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North Carolina local governments have historically enjoyed less freedom from direct legislative control than local governments do nationally because of the state's extreme reliance on local legislation in the General Assembly. This has caused many problems over the years until the 1969 General Assembly passed the home rule law that granted counties, cities, and towns more authority.
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18204
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The 1967 General Assembly organized a commission to review local governments on efficiency and function within the more encompassing state government. Findings from this commission report were presented to the General Assembly in 1969. Proposals for improving local government included constitutional reform, developing a state agency for local affairs, and restructuring local legislative control.
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33190
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Mr. Johnson points out some of the dangers involved in bringing up in the General Assembly so many of these “purely local bills”, a great many of which aren’t pure at all.
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