NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1959 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 275

HOUSE BILL 409

 

 

AN ACT TO PROVIDE FOR STAGGERED FOUR-YEAR TERMS FOR COMMISSIONERS AND FOR FOUR-YEAR TERMS FOR MAYOR IN THE TOWN OF WAKE FOREST IN WAKE COUNTY.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

 

Section 1. The regular election of officers for the Town of Wake Forest shall be held on Tuesday after the first Monday in May, 1959, and biennially thereafter under the laws regulating municipal elections not inconsistent with this Act.

Sec. 2. Beginning with the regular election in May, 1959, and quadrennially thereafter, the mayor shall be elected for a term of four years and until his successor is duly elected and qualified.

Sec. 3. At the regular election in May, 1959, the two commissioners receiving the highest number of votes shall serve for terms of four years each, and the three commissioners receiving the next highest number of votes shall serve for terms of two years each. Thereafter, as their terms of office expire, the commissioners shall be elected for terms of four years each and until their successors are duly elected and qualified.

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 All laws and clauses of laws in conflict with this Act are hereby repealed.

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

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 10th day of April, 1959.