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Agenda 11-07-19 Item 8-f - Modifications to the Agenda 11-07-19 Item Board of County Commissioners’ “Rules of Procedure” for Meeting Classifications and Clarification on Public Comments at BOCC Meetings
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5 12 <br /> Rules of Procedure for the <br /> Board of County Commissioners <br /> Introduction <br /> These rules of procedure were designed for use by a North Caro- <br /> lina board of county commissioners. Essentially, the rules are a <br /> modified version of Robert's Rules of Order, Revised. Robert's Rules <br /> is intended to guide the deliberations of a large legislative body; <br /> consequently, it is not always appropriate for a small governing <br /> board, which can afford to proceed with much less formality. An- <br /> other valuable resource consulted for this revision of the rules <br /> was Mason's Manual of Legislative Procedure. Mason's Manual is <br /> intended primarily for state legislatures, but its extensive discus- <br /> sion of the basic principles of parliamentary law and procedure is <br /> valuable for local governing boards as well. <br /> These rules apply to all meetings of the Orange County Board of <br /> Commissioners at which the Board is empowered to exercise any <br /> of the executive, administrative or legislative powers conferred <br /> on it by law. <br /> The North Carolina law (G.S. 153A-41) permits a board of county <br /> commissioners to adopt its own rules of procedure if these conform <br /> to "generally accepted principles of parliamentary procedure"and <br /> do not conflict with applicable law. Mason's Manual suggests that <br /> parliamentary law affecting the work of a board of county commis- <br /> sioners can be summarized in ten basic principles: <br /> 1. The board can take only those actions that it has authority or <br /> jurisdiction to take. A corollary of this principle is that the <br /> board's action, to be valid, must not violate any applicable law <br /> or constitutional provision. This is simply another manifesta- <br /> tion of the familiar legal doctrine that a unit of local govern- <br /> ment has only those powers conferred on it by law or necessar- <br /> ily implied from some specific grant of power. <br /> 2. The board must meet in order to act. Under North Carolina <br /> law, the powers conferred on the county governing board are <br /> exercised by the county board of commissioners as a group, <br /> not its individual members. Therefore, the group must meet <br /> in order to act. <br />
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