NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1959 SESSION

CHAPTER 331

HOUSE BILL 431

AN ACT AMENDING THE CHARTER OF THE TOWN OF GRIFTON SO AS TO FIX THE BEGINNING DATES OF THE TERMS OF OFFICE OF THE MAYOR AND COMMISSIONERS.

The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

Section 1. That Section 1, Chapter 1072, Session Laws of 1955, which rewrites Section 2 of Chapter 151, Private Laws of 1895, as amended by Chapter 819, Session Laws of 1945, and which is further amended by Chapter 292, Session Laws of 1957, be and the same is again amended by adding at the end thereof the following:

"That the terms of office of the mayor and members of the board of commissioners of said town shall begin on the second Tuesday in July following their election."

Sec. 2. All laws and clauses of laws in conflict with the provisions of this Act are hereby repealed.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 21st day of April, 1959.