NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1959 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 316

HOUSE BILL 459

 

 

AN ACT TO VALIDATE THE ADMINISTRATION OF OATHS OF OFFICE TO CERTAIN MEMBERS OF THE GOVERNING BODY OF THE TOWN OF HUNTERSVILLE IN MECKLENBURG COUNTY.

 

WHEREAS, Section 6 of Chapter 46 of the Private Laws of 1885 requires that the Mayor and Town Commissioners of the Town of Huntersville in Mecklenburg County take an oath of office before a justice of the peace; and

WHEREAS, the mayor has on certain occasions heretofore administered such oaths of office in lieu of a justice of the peace: Now, therefore,

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

 

Section 1. The action of the Mayor of the Town of Huntersville of heretofore administering the oath of office to any member of the Board of Commissioners of Huntersville is hereby validated as to each member with respect to whom such oath was administered and shall have the same force and effect as if such oath had originally been administered by a justice of the peace.

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 All laws and clauses of laws in conflict with this Act are hereby repealed.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 on and after its ratification.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 21st day of April, 1959.