NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1965 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 235

HOUSE BILL 366

 

 

AN ACT TO AMEND CHAPTER 507, SESSION LAWS OF 1947, RELATING TO THE ELECTION OF MAYOR AND COMMISSIONER IN THE TOWN OF SHALLOTTE, BRUNSWICK COUNTY.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

 

Section 1. Section 2 of Chapter 507, Session Laws of 1947, is hereby rewritten to read as follows:

"Sec. 2. Section 4, Chapter 339 of the Private Laws of 1899, amended by rewriting it to read as follows: In the municipal election held in 1965, and quadrennially thereafter, the candidate for mayor receiving the highest number of votes shall be elected for a term of 4 years.

In the election of 1965, the two candidates for town commissioner receiving the highest number of votes shall be elected for a term of four years, and the three candidates receiving the next highest number of vote shall be elected for a term of two years.

In the municipal election of 1967, and biennially thereafter, all town commissioners shall be elected for a term of four years.

Municipal elections in the Town of Shallotte shall be held in accordance with the general municipal election laws as contained in Article 3, Chapter 160 of the General Statutes."

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 All laws and clauses of laws in conflict with this Act are hereby repealed.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 it ratification.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 13th day of April, 1965.