NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1961 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 812

HOUSE BILL 938

 

 

AN ACT AUTHORIZING THE CATAWBA HEIGHTS SANITARY DISTRICT IN GASTON COUNTY TO ELECT FIVE MEMBERS TO THE SANITARY DISTRICT BOARD TO SERVE STAGGERED TERMS.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

 

Section 1. The membership of the Catawba Heights Sanitary District Board of Gaston County is hereby increased to five members. Each member shall be elected for a term in office of four years and shall serve in office until his successor is elected and qualified; provided, however, that at the general election in November of 1962, the three members elected who shall receive the highest number of votes cast by the qualified voters in said election shall be elected for terms of four years each and the two members elected with the lowest number of votes shall be elected for terms of two years each. Thereafter, all members of said board shall be elected for a term in office of four years each, so that in the 1964 general election two members shall be elected to four-year terms and in the 1966 general election three members shall be elected for four-year terms.

Sec. 2. The membership of the Catawba Heights Sanitary District Board in Gaston County shall remain three in number until the general election in November 1962.

Sec. 3. Any vacancy on said Sanitary District Board shall be filled by majority vote of the remaining members of said board, such appointee to serve until the next general election, at which election the voters shall elect a successor for the remainder of the unexpired term, if any.

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 All laws and clauses of laws in conflict with this Act are hereby repealed.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 14th day of June, 1961.