NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1965 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 459

HOUSE BILL 656

 

 

AN ACT TO AMEND G. S. 153-5 SO AS TO ALTERNATE THE TERMS OF THE MEMBERS OF THE BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS OF CHOWAN COUNTY.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

Section 1. G. S. 153-5 as the same appears in the 1963 Cumulative Supplement, is hereby amended by adding at the end thereof the following:

"There shall be elected in Chowan County at the general election to be held in 1966 five members of the board of county commissioners. The two candidates receiving highest votes in the 1966 election shall be elected for a term of four years, and the three receiving next highest vote shall be elected for two years. In the 1968 election and each two years thereafter, there shall be elected three commissioners, the two candidates receiving the highest vote to be for a term of four years and the one receiving the next highest vote for a term of two years."

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 All laws and clauses of laws in conflict with this Act are hereby repealed.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 7th day of May, 1965.