NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1959 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 1193

SENATE BILL 467

 

 

AN ACT TO AMEND CHAPTER 716, SESSION LAWS OF 1947, AND CHAPTER 665, SESSION LAWS OF 1955, RELATING TO THE NOMINATION AND ELECTION OF MAYOR AND MEMBERS OF THE BOARD OF ALDERMEN OF THE CITY OF CONCORD IN CABARRUS COUNTY.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

 

Section 1. Section 16 of Chapter 716, Session Laws of 1947, is hereby rewritten to read as follows:

"Sec. 16. On Tuesday after the first Monday in May, 1961, and quadrennially thereafter, there shall be elected at large by the qualified voters of the City of Concord a mayor and seven members of the board of aldermen. Each member of the board of aldermen shall represent on said board the ward from which he was elected. The aldermen so elected shall constitute the Board of Aldermen of the City of Concord, and each alderman and the mayor shall hold office for a term of four years, or until his successor is duly elected and qualified. Provided, that no person shall have the right to vote at any election in said city unless he shall have been a bona fide resident of the ward in which he proposes to register and vote, according to the requirements and provisions of the general election laws of the State of North Carolina."

Sec. 2. Section 1 of Chapter 665, Session Laws of 1955, is hereby amended by striking out the words: "and one member of the board of aldermen, who shall be elected at large of and by the qualified voters of said city, and in each of said wards there shall be nominated separately of and by the qualified voters therein one alderman for each ward", immediately following the word "mayor" in line 9 and immediately preceding the semicolon before the word "and" in line 12 of said Section, and substituting in lieu thereof the words "and seven members of the board of aldermen, one of whom shall be nominated at large and six of whom shall be nominated, one each from each of the six wards, by all of the qualified voters of said city who participate in said party primary".

Sec. 3. All laws and clauses of laws in conflict with this Act are hereby repealed.

Sec. 4. This Act shall be in full force and effect from and after its ratification.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 19th day of June, 1959.