NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1959 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 789

HOUSE BILL 815

 

 

AN ACT TO AMEND CHAPTER 172 OF THE SESSION LAWS OF 1957 RELATING TO THE ELECTION OF THE GOVERNING BODY OF THE TOWN OF WHITEVILLE IN COLUMBUS COUNTY.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

 

Section 1. Section 1 of Chapter 172 of the Session Laws of 1957 is hereby amended by adding a second and third paragraph to read as follows:

"If a vacancy should occur among the Councilmen thirty days or more before a regular election, such vacancy shall be filled by a vote of the people at such regular election. During the interim between the date the vacancy occurs and the time that a successor is elected and qualifies, such vacancy shall be filled by appointment of the governing board. If there be one such vacancy among the Councilmen, the candidate receiving the third highest number of votes for membership on the Council at the regular election shall serve for the remainder of the unexpired term. If there be two such vacancies, the candidates for membership on the Council receiving the third and fourth highest number of votes shall serve for the remainder of the unexpired terms. Otherwise, vacancies on the Council shall be filled as provided by G. S. 160-344.

"The Mayor and Councilmen shall be known as the Town Council."

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 All laws and clauses of laws in conflict with the provisions of this Act are hereby repealed.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 9th day of June, 1959.