NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1975 SESSION

CHAPTER 101

HOUSE BILL 438

AN ACT TO AMEND THE CHARTER OF THE TOWN OF LAKE LURE TO PROVIDE FOR THE ELECTION OF THE MAYOR AND BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS.

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

Section 1. Chapter 179, Private Laws of 1927, is amended by rewriting Section 3 thereof to read:

"Sec. 3. The Town of Lake Lure shall be governed by a mayor and a Board of Commissioners consisting of four members who shall be elected by the voters of the Town as hereinafter provided.

Beginning with the Town election to be held in November 1975, and every two years thereafter, the mayor shall be elected for a term of two years. At the election to be held in November 1975, four commissioners shall be elected. The two candidates receiving the highest number of votes shall be elected for terms of four years, and the two candidates receiving the next highest number of votes shall be elected for terms of two years. Thereafter, as the terms of the commissioners expire, their successors shall be elected for terms of four years.

The Town election shall be nonpartisan and decided by simple plurality, and shall be held on Tuesday after the first Monday in November 1975, and every two years thereafter. The municipal elections shall be held and conducted pursuant to the applicable provisions of Articles 23 and 24 of Chapter 163 of the General Statutes."

Sec. 2. Section 9 of Chapter 179, Private Laws of 1927, is hereby repealed.

Sec. 3. This act shall become effective upon ratification.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 1st day of April, 1975.