NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1959 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 486

HOUSE BILL 462

 

 

AN ACT TO PROVIDE FOR FOUR-YEAR STAGGERED TERMS FOR COUNCILMEN, SUBJECT TO APPROVAL BY THE VOTERS, OF THE CITY OF REIDSVILLE IN ROCKINGHAM COUNTY.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

 

Section 1. Subject to approval by the voters, as provided for in Section 2 of this Act, members of the city council shall serve for four-year terms; provided, that at the regular city election in May, 1960, the three candidates elected to the council who receive the highest number of votes shall serve for four-year terms and the other two candidates elected to the council shall serve for two-year terms. Thereafter, councilmen elected at succeeding biennial elections shall serve for four-year terms.

Sec. 2. At the regular city election in May, 1960, there shall be submitted to the voters a ballot upon which shall be printed the words "For Four-Year Staggered Terms For Councilmen" and "Against Four-Year Staggered Terms For Councilmen". If the majority of the votes cast at said election shall be "For" the four-year staggered terms the provisions of Section 1 of this Act shall become a part of the City Charter. If the majority of the votes cast at said election shall be "Against" the four-year staggered terms, this Act shall become void and the candidates elected at said election shall serve for two-year terms as now provided in the City Charter.

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 All laws and clauses of laws in conflict with this Act are hereby repealed.

Sec. 4. This Act shall become effective upon its ratification.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 12th day of May, 1959.