NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1959 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 817

HOUSE BILL 996

 

 

AN ACT TO PROVIDE FOR STAGGERED TERMS FOR COMMISSIONERS OF THE TOWN OF ROCKINGHAM IN RICHMOND COUNTY.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

 

Section 1. At the next regular election of Commissioners in the Town of Rockingham, the three candidates receiving the highest number of votes shall serve for terms of four years and the two candidates receiving the next highest number of votes shall serve for terms of two years. Thereafter, as their terms of office expire, commissioners shall be elected for four-year terms.

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 All laws and clauses of laws in conflict with this Act are hereby repealed.

Sec. 3. This Act shall become effective upon its ratification.

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