NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1977 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 346

HOUSE BILL 605

 

 

AN ACT TO AMEND THE CHARTER OF THE TOWN OF ROLESVILLE TO PROVIDE FOR THE ELECTION OF THE MAYOR AND BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

 

Section 1. Section 6 of Chapter 84, Public-Local Laws of 1941, is hereby rewritten to read as follows:

"Sec. 6. The election for municipal offices in the Town of Rolesville shall be nonpartisan and decided by simple plurality and shall be held on Tuesday after the first Monday in November beginning in 1977. In the municipal election held in 1977, the three candidates for the office of commissioner receiving the highest number of votes shall be elected for a term of four years, and the two candidates receiving the next highest number of votes shall be elected for a term of two years. Thereafter, as the terms of each commissioner expire, his successor shall be elected for a term of four years.

In the 1977 municipal election, the mayor shall be elected for a term of two years. Thereafter the mayor shall be elected for a term of four years.

Except as otherwise provided herein, the municipal elections shall be held and conducted in accordance with the applicable provisions of Articles 23 and 24 of Chapter 163 of the General Statutes relating to municipal elections."

Sec. 2. This act shall become effective upon ratification.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 10th day of May, 1977.