NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1977 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 444

HOUSE BILL 847

 

 

AN ACT TO INCREASE THE MEMBERSHIP OF THE BRUNSWICK COUNTY BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS AND TO PROVIDE FOR THEIR ELECTION.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

 

Section 1.  The Board of County Commissioners of Brunswick County shall consist of six members who shall serve for staggered terms as herein provided, and who shall be nominated and elected by the qualified voters of the county.  Their term of office shall begin on the first Monday in December after their election.

Sec. 2. At the general election to be held in 1978, four members shall be elected. The three candidates receiving the highest number of votes shall be elected for a term 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 term of each member expires, his successor shall be elected for a term of four years.

Sec. 3. One member of the board of commissioners shall be elected from each of the six townships of the county, and candidates shall be residents of the township for which they seek election. In the case of a vacancy, the person appointed to fill the vacancy shall be a resident of the same township as the member whose position becomes vacant.

Sec. 4. The board of county commissioners shall hold its organizational meeting on the first Monday in December after each election and elect one member as chairman of the board. The chairman shall not vote to create a tie vote.

Sec. 5. Chapter 299, Public-Local Laws of 1933; Chapter 773, Session Laws of 1959; and Chapter 35, Session Laws of 1975 are repealed.

Sec. 6.  This act shall become effective upon ratification.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 27th day of May, 1977.