GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA
SESSION 2005
SESSION LAW 2006-147
SENATE BILL 1351
AN ACT to provide for staggered four-year terms for the morven town council and four-year terms for the mayor of the town of morven.
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
SECTION 1. Section 3 of the Charter of the Town of Morven, being Chapter 71, Private Laws of 1897, as rewritten by Chapter 765 of the Session Laws of 1947, reads as rewritten:
"Sec. 3. The officers of said town shall consist
of a mayor and five commissioners, council members.and the
present mayor and commissioners shall continue until their successors are
elected on the first Tuesday after the first Monday in May, 1947, and have
qualified. In 2007 and quadrennially thereafter, the mayor shall be
elected for a four-year term. In 2007, the two council members receiving the
highest numbers of votes shall be elected to four-year terms, and the three
council members receiving the next highest numbers of votes shall be elected to
two-year terms. In 2009 and quadrennially thereafter, three council members
shall be elected to four-year terms. In 2011 and quadrennially thereafter, two
council members shall be elected to four-year terms."
SECTION 2. Section 4 of the Charter of the Town of Morven, being Chapter 71, Private Laws of 1897, as rewritten by Chapter 765 of the Session Laws of 1947, reads as rewritten:
"Sec. 4. The election for mayor and commissionerscouncil
members shall be held on the first Tuesday after the first Monday in May
and biannially thereafter, and shall be conducted in accordance with the
General Municipal Election laws as set out in Article 3 of Chapter 160
160A of the General Statutes of North Carolina. Elections shall be
decided under the plurality method set out in G.S. 163-292.
SECTION 3. Section 7 of the Charter of the Town of Morven, being Chapter 71, Private Laws of 1897, as rewritten by Chapter 765 of the Session Laws of 1947, is repealed.
SECTION 4. The Charter of the Town of Morven, being Chapter 71, Private Laws of 1897, as amended, is further amended by deleting "board of commissioners" wherever it appears and substituting "town council" and by deleting "commissioner" wherever it appears and substituting "town council member".
SECTION 5. This act is effective when it becomes law.
In the General Assembly read three times and ratified this the 20th day of July, 2006.
s/ Beverly E. Perdue
President of the Senate
s/ James B. Black
Speaker of the House of Representatives