NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1959 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 257

HOUSE BILL 365

 

 

AN ACT TO AMEND CHAPTER 731, SESSION LAWS OF 1953, RELATING TO THE CHARTER OF THE CITY OF HENDERSON IN VANCE COUNTY.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

 

Section 1. Section 3 of Chapter 731, Session Laws of 1953, is hereby amended by adding at the end thereof the following:

"Provided, that the City Council of the City of Henderson may, whenever it shall deem it necessary that the boundaries of the above four wards, or any of them, be changed or adjusted, submit its proposed changes or adjustments to a vote of the registered voters of the City of Henderson at any regular municipal election, and if a majority of the voters who shall vote in the election shall vote in favor of the said changes or adjustments, then the said four wards, or those affected, shall be changed, increased or adjusted accordingly by ordinance duly adopted by the city council and said wards shall thenceforth have new boundaries. Provided further, that the proposed ward changes or adjustments shall not be submitted to a vote of the people if said changes or adjustments would affect any of the elected aldermen then serving so as to place said aldermen in a different ward from which he was elected to serve."

Sec. 2. All laws and clauses of laws in conflict with this Act are hereby repealed.

Sec. 3. This Act shall be in full force and effect from and after its ratification.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 9th day of April, 1959.