AN ACT to move elections for the town of roper to the tuesday after the first monday in November in odd‑numbered years.

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

SECTION 1.  Section 3 of the Charter of the Town of Roper, being Chapter 24, Private Laws of 1907, reads as rewritten:
"Sec. 3. That the officers of said corporation shall consist of a mayor, three commissioners, regular and special policemen, clerk and treasurer, and such other officers as the town may appoint. Elections for mayor and commissioner shall be determined by the nonpartisan plurality method in accordance with G.S. 163‑292 and shall be held at the time set forth in G.S. 163‑279(a)(1)."
SECTION 2.  This act applies to elections held in 2009 and thereafter.
SECTION 3.  This act is effective when it becomes law.
In the General Assembly read three times and ratified this the 16th day of July, 2008.

	s/	 Beverly E. Perdue
	 President of the Senate

	s/	 Joe Hackney
	 Speaker of the House of Representatives