may be by resolution or by ordinance; in other cases they specifically authorize the use of a resolution by a municipality. See, e.g, N.C. Gen. Stat. §§ 14-288.13(c) (1993) (“No ordinance enacted by a county under [this] section shall apply within the corporate limits of any municipality, or within any area of the county over which the municipality has jurisdiction to enact general police-power ordinances, unless the municipality by resolution consents to its application”); 14-288.14(a) (1993) (similar); 14-409.40(b) (Supp. 1997) (prohibiting municipality from regulating firearms by “ordinance, resolution, or other enactment,” except as permitted by statute); 63-53(2) (1985) (authorizing municipality to “adopt and amend all needful rules, regulations, and ordinances”); 136-140.8 (1993) (<HOLDING>); 157-44 (1987) (specifically authorizing
holding that a state department of transportation employee was subject to patronage dismissal where his duties included serving as a liaison between the director of the department and the general public and other government officials including representing the department at meetings and conferences recognizing women as a distinct group holding that where department of transportation regulations did not require department officials to enforce vehicle regulations the departments decision not to do so was discretionary recognizing ordinances and resolutions as two distinct items that a municipality could send the north carolina department of transportation holding that the company administering a selfinsurance program for the department of transportation was an agent for the department and was therefore immune from suit