NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1967 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 203

HOUSE BILL 336

 

 

AN ACT TO AMEND CHAPTER 213 OF THE PRIVATE LAWS OF 1903 TO PROVIDE AT LARGE ELECTIONS IN THE TOWN OF PLYMOUTH, AND TO REPEAL CONFLICTING ACTS.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

 

Section 1. Chapter 213 of the Private Laws of 1903 is hereby amended by rewriting Sections 3 and 4 thereof to read as follows:

"Sec. 3. The corporate powers of the town shall be exercised by a Board of Councilmen of six members, elected as provided by this Act. Regular town elections shall be held on the Tuesday after the first Monday in May of each odd-numbered year. At each election, the qualified voters of the town voting at large shall elect a mayor, and shall elect two councilmen from each of the three wards, all to serve for terms of two years, or until their successors are elected and qualified. In each election, the candidate for mayor who receives the largest number of votes cast for mayor shall be declared elected, and the two candidates for councilman from each ward who receive the largest numbers of votes cast for candidates who reside in the ward wherein they reside shall be declared elected.

"Sec. 4. G. S. 160-31, insofar as it requires a separate polling place in each ward, shall not apply to the Town of Plymouth. The Board of Councilmen may, in its discretion, establish one or more polling places, and may from time to time change the polling place or places."

Sec. 2. Chapter 213 of the Private Laws of 1903 is hereby further amended by striking out the first and second sentences of Section 5 thereof.

Sec. 3. The following Acts and portions of Acts are hereby repealed:

(a)       Sections 1, 2, and 3 of Chapter 20 of the Private Laws of 1911;

(b)       Chapter 179 of the Private Laws of 1915;.

Sec. 4. The notice heretofore given of the 1967 regular election in the Town of Plymouth, and the notice heretofore given of the discontinuance of certain polling places or of changes in polling places for such election, and the action of the Board of Councilmen of the Town of Plymouth in discontinuing such polling places or changing such polling places, are all hereby legalized, ratified, approved, validated, and confirmed.

Sec. 5. All laws and clauses of laws in conflict with this Act are hereby repealed.

Sec. 6. This Act shall be effective upon its ratification.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 18th day of April, 1967.