NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1961 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 101

HOUSE BILL 159

 

 

AN ACT TO AMEND G. S. 153-5 TO INCREASE THE MEMBERS OF THE BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS OF WILKES COUNTY.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

 

Section 1. G. S. 153-5 as the same appears in the 1959 Cumulative Supplement is amended by adding a new paragraph to read as follows:

"There shall be elected in Wilkes County at the general election to be held in the year 1962 and every two years thereafter by the duly qualified voters thereof a board of county commissioners composed of five persons who shall serve for a term of two years from the first Monday in December after their election and until their successors are elected and qualified."

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 All laws and clauses of laws in conflict with this Act are hereby repealed.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 24th day of March, 1961.