GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA

1995 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 620

HOUSE BILL 1279

 

AN ACT CONCERNING THE MANNER OF SELECTING THE MAYOR PRO TEMPORE OF THE TOWN OF MOUNT HOLLY.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

 

Section 1. (a)  Notwithstanding G.S. 160A-70, at the organizational meeting following each town election, the council member who received the highest number of votes for four-year terms at the regular municipal election held two years previously shall become mayor pro tempore, to serve until the next organizational meeting or until the person ceases to be a member of the council, whichever comes first.

(b)       If, however, the person who received the highest number of votes is no longer a member of the council at the time that person would assume the office of mayor pro tempore under subsection (a) of this section, the person with the next highest number of votes at that election shall become mayor pro tempore.

Sec. 2.  This act applies to the Town of Mount Holly only.

Sec. 3.  This act applies beginning with the organizational meeting after its ratification.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified this the 21st day of June, 1996.

 

 

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Dennis A. Wicker

President of the Senate

 

 

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Harold J. Brubaker

Speaker of the House of Representatives