NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1959 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 849

HOUSE BILL 1108

 

 

AN ACT REWRITING SECTION 1 OF CHAPTER 479, PUBLIC-LOCAL LAWS OF 1917, AND AMENDING CHAPTER 273, PUBLIC-LOCAL LAWS OF 1937, AS AMENDED, SO AS TO INCREASE THE TERMS OF OFFICE OF THE MEMBERS OF THE BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS AND THE TAX COLLECTOR OF BUNCOMBE COUNTY FROM TWO TO FOUR YEARS.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

 

Section 1. That Section 1 of Chapter 479, Public-Local Laws of 1917, be and the same is hereby rewritten to read as follows:

"Section 1. There shall be elected in Buncombe County at the General Election to be held in the year 1960, and every four years thereafter, by the duly qualified voters thereof, a board of county commissioners composed of three persons who shall serve for terms of four years each from the first Monday in December after their election and until their successors are duly elected and qualified."

Sec. 2. That Section 12, Chapter 273, Public-Local Laws of 1937, as rewritten by Section 1 of Chapter 97, Public-Local Laws of 1939, be and the same is hereby amended by striking out the word "two" appearing in line 7 of said Section as rewritten, and inserting in lieu thereof the word "four".

Sec. 3. The provisions of Section 2 of this Act shall first apply to the Tax Collector for the Board of Tax Supervision of Buncombe County nominated and elected in the year 1960.

Sec. 4. All laws and clauses of laws in conflict with the provisions of this Act are hereby repealed.

Sec. 5. 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.