NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1973 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 1044

SENATE BILL 1174

 

AN ACT TO PROVIDE FOR THE ELECTION OF THE BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS OF THE TOWN OF CERRO GORDO AND TO APPOINT AN ADDITIONAL MEMBER.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

 

Section 1.  The Board of Commissioners of the Town of Cerro Gordo shall consist of five members.  The Mayor of the Town shall be elected for a term of two years, and the members of the Board shall be elected as herein provided for staggered terms of four years.

Sec. 2. Beginning with the regular municipal election to be held in Cerro Gordo in 1975, the three candidates for Town Commissioner receiving the highest number of votes shall be elected for terms of four years, and the two candidates receiving the next highest number of votes shall be elected for terms of two years. Thereafter, as the terms of each member expire, their successors shall be elected for terms of four years.

Sec. 3. The municipal elections shall be nonpartisan and decided by a simple plurality, and shall be held and conducted by the Columbus County Board of Elections in accordance with the applicable provisions of Articles 23 and 24 of Chapter 163 of the General Statutes.

Sec. 4. Rod Nance is hereby appointed as a member of the Town Board of Commissioners of Cerro Gordo to serve until the municipal election to be held in 1975.

Sec. 5. This act shall be effective upon ratification.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 28th day of March, 1974.