19-302. Deputies and assistants; duties; bond; acting as county treasurer prohibited; meetings and seminars; budget; limitation on personnel policies and practices.
19-302
19-302. Deputies and assistants; duties; bond; acting as county
treasurer prohibited; meetings and seminars; budget; limitation
on personnel policies and practices.
(a) The county clerk shall appoint a deputy county clerk and file a written
statement of the appointment in
the clerk's office. In the
absence or disability of the county clerk or if a vacancy in the
office occurs, the deputy county clerk
shall perform all the duties of the county clerk during
the clerk's absence or until the vacancy is filled. In addition to the deputy,
the county clerk also may appoint, promote, demote and dismiss additional
deputies and any assistants necessary to carry out the duties of the office.
The county clerk shall supervise all assistants
in the performance of their duties. The county clerk's surety shall be
responsible under the clerk's official bond for the
acts of the deputies and any assistants. The county
or deputy county clerk shall in no
case act as a county treasurer or as the treasurer's
deputy. Within the limitations of the budget for the financing of the operation
of the clerk's office as approved by the board of county commissioners,
the county clerk may attend and may require the deputies and any assistants
to attend any meetings or seminars which the clerk determines will be beneficial
to the operation of the clerk's office.
(b) The county clerk shall submit a budget for the financing of the operation
of the clerk's office to the board of county commissioners for their approval.
(c) Any personnel action taken by the county clerk under this section
shall be subject to the following: (1) Personnel policies and procedures
established by the board of county commissioners for all county employees
other than elected officials; (2) any pay plan established by the board
of county commissioners for all county employees other than elected officials;
(3) any applicable collective bargaining agreements or civil service system;
and (4) the budget for the financing of the operation of the clerk's office
as approved by the board of county commissioners.
History: G.S. 1868, ch. 25, § 41; R.S. 1923, 19-302; L. 1983, ch.
91, § 2; July 1.