NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1971 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 576

HOUSE BILL 992

 

AN ACT TO AMEND THE PROVISIONS FOR ELECTION OF THE MAYOR AND THE COMMISSIONERS FOR THE TOWN OF CANDOR, IN MONTGOMERY COUNTY, NORTH CAROLINA.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

 

Section 1.  Section 4 of Chapter 48, Private Laws of 1908, Extra Session, is hereby rewritten to read as follows:

"Sec. 4. There shall be an election held for the office of mayor on the first Monday in May, 1973, and every four years thereafter. There shall be an election held for the five commissioners on the first Monday in May, 1973, the three elected candidates receiving the greatest number of votes to serve a term of four years, and the remaining two elected candidates to serve a term of two years. Thereafter, all commissioners elected will serve a term of four years, with elections to be held on the first Monday in May for the year that said commissioners' terms expire. The elections shall be under the same rules and regulations that govern State and county elections; and the mayor and commissioners shall appoint a registrar and two judges to conduct such elections, and provide for a registration of the voters in the corporate limits of the town. All persons qualified to vote for members of the General Assembly who have resided 30 days within the corporate limits of the town, shall be allowed to register and vote in the town election."

Sec. 2.  This act shall become effective upon ratification.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 16th day of June, 1971.