NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1959 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 896

HOUSE BILL 1065

 

 

AN ACT RELATING TO THE ELECTION AND TERM OF OFFICE OF THE MAYOR AND MEMBERS OF THE BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS OF THE TOWN OF CHADBOURN IN COLUMBUS COUNTY.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

 

Section 1. At the regular municipal election in the Town of Chadbourn in 1961, there shall be elected a mayor and five commissioners who shall constitute the governing board of the town. The two candidates for the board of commissioners who receive the largest number of votes in the 1961 municipal election shall serve for terms of four years each or until their successors are duly elected and qualified, and the three candidates for the said board of commissioners who receive the next highest number of votes shall serve for terms of two years each or until their successors are duly elected and qualified. Thereafter, all successors to the board of commissioners shall be elected at the regular biennial municipal election to serve for terms of four years each. The mayor shall continue to be elected at the regular biennial municipal election for a term of two years and shall have no right to vote except in case of a tie.

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 All laws and clauses of laws in conflict with this Act are hereby repealed.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 10th day of June, 1959.