NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1961 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 76

HOUSE BILL 136

 

 

AN ACT RELATING TO ELECTIVE OFFICIALS OF THE TOWN OF CLAREMONT IN CATAWBA COUNTY.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

 

Section 1. At the regular annual election of town officers in May, 1961, in the Town of Claremont, the qualified voters shall elect a mayor and five (5) aldermen.

Sec. 2. The mayor to be elected in May, 1961, shall serve for a term of two years or until his successor is duly elected and qualified. Thereafter, a mayor shall be elected biennially in the odd-numbered years and his term of office shall be two years.

Sec. 3. Of the five (5) aldermen to be elected in May, 1961, the two aldermen receiving the highest number of votes cast for such office shall serve for terms of two years each or until their successors are duly elected and qualified and the three aldermen receiving the next highest number of votes cast for such office shall serve for terms of one year each or until their successors are duly elected and qualified. Thereafter, as the terms of office expire, aldermen elected at regular annual town elections shall serve for terms of two years or until their successors are duly elected and qualified.

Sec. 4. All laws and clauses of laws in conflict with this Act are hereby repealed to the extent of such conflict.

Sec. 5. This Act shall become effective upon its ratification.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 21st day of March, 1961.