NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1961 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 109

HOUSE BILL 203

 

 

AN ACT RELATING TO ELECTIONS OF OFFICERS OF THE TOWN OF BROOKFORD IN CATAWBA COUNTY.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

 

Section 1. At the next election of town officers in May, 1961, in the town of Brookford, the qualified voters shall elect a mayor and four (4) aldermen.

Sec. 2. The mayor to be elected in May, 1961, shall serve for a term of two years or until his successor is duly elected and qualified. Thereafter, a mayor shall be elected biennially in the odd-numbered years and his term of office shall be two years.

Sec. 3. Of the four aldermen elected in May, 1961, the two aldermen receiving the highest number of votes cast for such office shall serve for terms of two years each or until their successors are duly elected and qualified, and the two aldermen receiving the next highest number of votes cast for such office shall serve for terms of one year each, or until their successors are duly elected and qualified. Thereafter, elections shall be held annually and as the terms of office of aldermen expire, aldermen elected at annual town elections shall serve for terms of two years or until their successors are duly elected and qualified.

Sec. 4. All laws and clauses of laws in conflict with this Act are hereby repealed.

Sec. 5. This Act shall be in full force and effect from and after its ratification.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 24th day of March, 1961.