NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1975 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 375

SENATE BILL 635

 

AN ACT TO INCREASE THE NUMBER OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS OF GASTON COUNTY, TO PROVIDE FOR STAGGERED TERMS FOR COUNTY COMMISSIONERS OF GASTON COUNTY, AND TO MAKE VARIOUS OTHER PROVISIONS RELATING TO THE GASTON COUNTY BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

 

Section 1. At the general election to be held in the year 1976, there shall be elected an additional member of the Board of Commissioners of Gaston County, thereby increasing the number of said commissioners from six to seven, which seventh commissioner shall be from Gastonia Township and shall be elected for a term of four years.

Sec. 2. At the general election to be held in the year 1976, there shall be elected in the County of Gaston by the duly qualified voters thereof, four members of the board of county commissioners, with one commissioner from Gastonia Township, one commissioner from Cherryville Township, one commissioner from Crowders Mountain Township, and one commissioner from Southpoint Township.  These four members shall compose one class, whose term of office shall commence on the first Monday in December, 1976, and expire at the end of four years thereafter, or on the first Monday in December, 1980.  There shall be another class, composed of the three commissioners whose terms began on December 1, 1974, being one commissioner from Dallas Township, one commissioner from Gastonia Township and one commissioner from Riverbend Township, whose terms of office will expire on the first Monday in December, 1978.  Upon the expiration of the term of office of each class of commissioners, their successors shall be elected to hold office four years and until their successors are elected and qualified.

Sec. 3. After 1976 there shall be seven county commissioners for Gaston County, two of whom must be residents of Gastonia Township and one each from the townships of Dallas, Riverbend, Southpoint, Crowders Mountain and Cherryville.

Sec. 4. The Board of Commissioners of Gaston County shall hold a regular meeting at the courthouse in said county on the first Monday in each month, and may adjourn any regular meeting from day to day or to any day in the month until the business before the board is disposed of.  Special meetings may be held at other times for the more convenient dispatch of business, at the call of the chairman, on the written request of one member of the board, but public notice of the time and place of such called meeting shall be posted at the courthouse door for not less than three days prior thereto.

Sec. 5. No meeting or meetings of the Board of County Commissioners of Gaston County heretofore held, and no acts done by such board of commissioners in such meeting or meetings shall be invalid because of any defect in the manner of calling or publishing notice of such meeting or meetings or because such meeting or meetings were held on a day or days other than those theretofore prescribed by law for such meetings; and all acts heretofore performed at any meeting or meetings of the Board of County Commissioners of Gaston County are hereby declared valid in all respects.

Sec. 6. All laws and clauses of laws in conflict with this act are hereby repealed.

Sec. 7. This act shall apply only to the County of Gaston.

Sec. 8. This act shall become effective upon ratification.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 26th day of May, 1975.