NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1977 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 281

HOUSE BILL 725

 

 

AN ACT TO AMEND CHAPTER 1151, SESSION LAWS OF 1949 TO PROVIDE STAGGERED TERMS OF FOUR YEARS FOR THE BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS OF HYDE COUNTY.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

 

Section 1.  Section 2 of Chapter 1151, Session Laws of 1949 is rewritten to read:

"Sec. 2. Beginning with the regular primary election in 1978, there shall be nominated one member of the Board of Commissioners from each of the three districts."

Sec. 2. Section 3 of Chapter 1151, Session Laws of 1949 is rewritten to read:

"Sec. 3. Beginning with the general election for county officers to be held in 1978, one commissioner shall be elected from each of the districts. The two candidates, equal to the number of positions to be filled in each district, receiving the highest number of votes shall be elected for terms of four years, and the candidate receiving the next highest number of votes shall be elected for a term of two years. Thereafter, as the terms of the members expire, their successors shall be elected for terms of four years."

Sec. 3. This act shall become effective upon ratification.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 2nd day of May, 1977.