NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1963 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 237

HOUSE BILL 407

 

 

AN ACT TO PROVIDE FOR THE ELECTION OF A MAYOR AND FIVE COMMISSIONERS OF THE TOWN OF WINDSOR AND TO VALIDATE THE ACTIONS OF SAID COMMISSIONERS HERETOFORE TAKEN IN THE PERFORMANCE OF THEIR DUTIES AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

 

Section 1. House Bill No. 61, ratified on the first day of March, 1963, is repealed.

Sec. 2. At the next general municipal election to be held in the Town of Windsor, a municipal corporation in Bertie County, on the first Tuesday after the first Monday in May, 1963, and biennially thereafter, there shall be elected a Mayor and five (5) commissioners, who shall be nominated and hold office as provided in Chapter 253 of the Session Laws of 1943. The five (5) commissioners so elected shall constitute the governing body of said Town and shall be known as the Board of Commissioners.

Sec. 3. The present Board of Commissioners of said Town of Windsor is hereby declared to be the valid governing body of said Town and all actions heretofore taken by said Board of Commissioners in the performance of its duties, including all actions taken in the authorization of bonds of said Town, are hereby in all respects validated, ratified, approved and confirmed.

Sec. 4. The word "Town" shall be substituted for the word "City" wherever the word "City" appears in said Chapter 253 of the Session Laws of 1943, and all references in said Chapter 253 to the "City of Windsor" and to the "City Clerk" shall be deemed to be references to the "Town of Windsor" and to the "Town Clerk".

Sec. 5. In addition to the powers conferred by the Charter of said Town, the Town of Windsor shall have all the powers now conferred by the General Statutes of North Carolina upon municipal corporations.

Sec. 6. All laws and clauses of laws in conflict with this Act are hereby repealed.

Sec. 7. 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 16th day of April, 1963.