NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1973 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 847

HOUSE BILL 1400

 

AN ACT TO AMEND CHAPTER 350 OF THE SESSION LAWS OF 1963 TO PROVIDE STAGGERED TERMS OF FOUR YEARS FOR MEMBERS OF THE HERTFORD COUNTY BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

 

Section 1. Chapter 350, Session Laws of 1963, is hereby amended by rewriting Section 4 to read:

"Sec. 4. The nominees from each district shall be voted upon in the general election by all of the qualified voters of Hertford County. In the general election to be held in 1974, the candidate from District One receiving the highest number of votes shall be elected for a term of four years and the candidate from District One receiving the next highest number of votes shall be elected for a term of two years. Thereafter as their terms expire, their successors shall be elected for terms of four years.

In the general election to be held in 1976, the candidate from District Two and from District Three receiving the highest number of votes shall be elected for a term of four years. The candidate from District Two receiving the next highest number of votes shall be elected for a term of two years. Thereafter, as their terms expire, their successors shall be elected for terms of four years each."

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

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 11th day of February, 1974.