GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA

1987 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 281

HOUSE BILL 696

 

AN ACT TO EXPAND THE ANSON COUNTY BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS FROM FIVE TO SEVEN MEMBERS, AND PROVIDE FOR THEIR NOMINATION AND ELECTION FROM DISTRICTS.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

 

Section 1.  Effective on the first Monday in December of 1988, the Anson County Board of Commissioners shall consist of seven members.

Sec. 2.  For the purpose of nominating and electing members of the county board of commissioners, Anson County is divided into seven districts, each of which shall nominate and elect one member as follows:

District 1 consists of Burnsville Township and Ansonville Township.

District 2 consists of Lilesville Township, excluding those portions of U.S. Census Enumeration District 277 which are in Anson County Precincts Wadesboro One or Wadesboro Three.

District 3 consists of Gulledge Township and Morven Township.

District 4 consists of Lanesboro Township and White Store Township and that portion of U.S. Census Enumeration District 287 which is within Anson County Precinct Lanesboro One.

District 5 consists of that portion of Wadesboro Township included within U.S. Census Enumeration Districts 286T, 286U and 290, and that portion of U.S. Census Enumeration District 277 which is within Anson County Precinct Wadesboro Three.

District 6 consists of that portion of Wadesboro Township included within U.S. Census Enumeration Districts 285 and 289.

District 7 consists of that portion of Wadesboro Township included within U.S. Census Enumeration Districts 284, 287 and 288, and that portion of U.S. Census Enumeration District 277 which is within Anson County Precinct Wadesboro One and excluding that portion of U.S. Census Enumeration District 287 which is within Anson County Precinct Lanesboro One.

Sec. 3.  All townships referred to in this act are delineated as designated by the United States Bureau of the Census for the 1980 Census.  All precincts referred to in this act are the precincts as designated by the Anson County Board of Elections on the date of ratification of this act.

Sec. 4.  The qualified voters of each district established by this act shall nominate candidates and elect a member who resides in that district for the seat apportioned to that district.

Sec. 5.  (a) In 1988 and quadrennially thereafter, members shall be elected from Districts 1, 3, 6 and 7 for four-year terms.

(b)       In 1990 and quadrennially thereafter, members shall be elected from Districts 2, 4 and 5 for four-year terms.

Sec. 6.  (a) Beginning on the first Monday of December 1988, the person then holding the seat for District 1 (Wadesboro Township) under Chapter 612, Public-Local Laws of 1939, for a term to expire in 1990, shall represent District 5 as established by Section 2 of this act until the first Monday in December 1990.

(b)       Beginning on the first Monday of December 1988, the person then holding the seat for District 2 (Ansonville and Lilesville Townships) under Chapter 612, Public-Local Act of 1939, for a term to expire in 1990, shall represent District 2 as established by Section 2 of this act until the first Monday in December 1990.

(c)       Beginning on the first Monday of December 1988, the person then holding the seat for District 4 (Burnsville, Lanesboro and White Store Townships) under Chapter 612, Public-Local Act of 1939, for a term to expire in 1990, shall represent District 4 as established by Section 2 of this act until the first Monday in December 1990.

Sec. 7.  Chapter 612, Public-Local Laws of 1939, and Chapters 881 and 1128, Session Laws of 1949, are repealed.

Sec. 8.  This act shall become effective on the first Monday in December 1988, except that Sections 2, 3, 4 and 5(a) shall become effective beginning with the 1988 primary and election, and no primary or elections shall be held under Chapter 612, Public-Local Laws of 1939.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified this the 4th day of June, 1987.