NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1963 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 1160

HOUSE BILL 1331

 

 

AN ACT TO AMEND CHAPTER 123, SESSION LAWS OF 1951, RELATING TO MUNICIPAL ELECTIONS IN THE TOWN OF DUNN.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

 

Section 1. Section 4, Chapter 123, Session Laws of 1951, is hereby amended by adding subsections 5, 6, 7 and 8 as follows:

"(5)     In the next regular city election in 1965, the Mayor of the Town of Dunn and the Commissioner from Ward I and the Commissioner from Ward III, and two Commissioners from the Town of Dunn at large, shall be elected and shall serve terms of two (2) years, and until their successors are elected and qualified.

"(6)     In the regular city elections to be held in 1967 and quadrennially thereafter the Mayor of the Town of Dunn, the Commissioner from Ward I, the Commissioner from Ward II, the Commissioner from Ward III, and the Commissioner from Ward IV, and two Commissioners from the town at large, shall be elected and shall serve for terms of four (4) years, and until their successors are elected and qualified.

"(7)     Effective upon the election and qualification of the Mayor and Commissioners elected in the regular election in 1967, and thereafter, the governing Board of the Town of Dunn shall consist of the Mayor, a Commissioner elected from Ward I, a Commissioner elected from Ward II, a Commissioner elected from Ward III, a Commissioner elected from Ward IV, and two Commissioners elected from the Town of Dunn at large, a total of the Mayor and six Commissioners.

"(8)     Candidate for election to the office of Mayor, or to the office of Commissioner, whether from one of the wards or as a Commissioner at large, shall file notice of such candidacy with the City Clerk at least thirty days prior to the city primary. In the city primary election to be held in 1965, and in all city primary elections to be held thereafter, candidates for the office of Mayor and Commissioners who receive a majority of all the votes cast, shall be declared elected to the office for which they are running, and these candidates who receive the majority of all the votes cast shall not be required to run again in the regular city election. In such primary, if there are more than four candidates for the office of Commissioner at large, and the two candidates who receive the largest number of votes do not receive a majority vote of all the votes cast in such primary, the four candidates who receive the largest number of votes will run in the general election. In said primary, if there are no more than two candidates for the office of Mayor, or if there are no more than two candidates for the office of Commissioner from each of the numbered wards, and if there are no more than four candidates for the office of Commissioners at large, the city primary will not be held, and candidates shall be voted upon in the general election for the election of city officials."

Sec. 2. All laws and clauses of laws in conflict with this Act are hereby repealed.

Sec. 3. 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 June, 1963.