NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1965 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 668

HOUSE BILL 859

 

 

AN ACT PROVIDING FOR FOUR-YEAR STAGGERED TERMS OF OFFICE FOR MEMBERS OF THE BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS OF LENOIR COUNTY.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

 

Section 1. The three members of the Board of Commissioners of Lenoir County elected at the General Election in 1966 who receive the highest number of votes of those elected to said board, shall be declared elected for terms of four years each, and the other two members of said board elected at the General Election in 1966 shall be declared elected for terms of two years each. At the General Election in 1968 and biennially thereafter, successors to those members of the Board of Commissioners of Lenoir County whose terms have expired, shall be elected for terms of four years each.

Sec. 2. All laws and clauses of laws in conflict with this Act are hereby repealed.

Sec. 3. This Act shall be in full force and effect on and after its ratification.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 21st day of May, 1965.