NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1967 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 748

HOUSE BILL 1053

 

 

AN ACT TO AMEND CHAPTER 368 OF THE PRIVATE LAWS OF 1909 TO PROVIDE FOUR-YEAR TERMS OF OFFICE FOR THE MAYOR AND COMMISSIONERS OF THE TOWN OF SNOW HILL.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

 

Section 1. Chapter 368 of the Private Laws of 1909 is hereby amended by rewriting Section 2 thereof to read as follows:

"Sec. 2. The government of the Town of Snow Hill shall be vested in a Mayor, and a Board of Commissioners made up of five members. Regular elections shall be held biennially in the odd-numbered years. In the regular election in 1969, there shall be elected a Mayor and five Commissioners, and the candidate for Mayor and the three candidates for Commissioner who receive the largest numbers of votes shall be declared elected for terms of four years, and the two candidates for Commissioner who receive the next largest numbers of votes shall be declared elected for terms of two years. In the regular election in 1971, and quadrennially thereafter, there shall be elected two Commissioners to serve for terms of four years. In the regular election in 1973, and quadrennially thereafter, there shall be elected a Mayor and three Commissioners to serve for terms of four years. Any vacancy in the office of Mayor or Commissioner shall be filled by the Board of Commissioners for the remainder of the unexpired term. Except as otherwise provided herein, regular town elections shall be conducted in accordance with the general laws relating to municipal elections."

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 All laws and clauses of laws in conflict with this Act are hereby repealed.

Sec. 3. This Act shall be effective upon its ratification.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 9th day of June, 1967.