NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1965 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 908

SENATE BILL 513

 

 

AN ACT TO PROVIDE FOR THE NOMINATION AND ELECTION OF THE BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS OF CHEROKEE COUNTY.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

Section 1. The Board of County Commissioners of Cherokee County shall be composed of six members who shall be elected for a term of four years, and shall be elected from districts as hereinafter provided.

Sec. 2. For the purpose of nominating and electing members of the County Board of Commissioners, the county is hereby divided into three districts, to be numbered and designated as follows: District No. 1 shall be composed of Valley Town Township; District No. 2 shall be composed of Brasstown Precinct, Burnt Meeting House Precinct, Murphy North Ward, Murphy South Ward, Peachtree Precinct and Walker School House Precinct; District No. 3 shall be composed of Culberson Precinct, Grape Creek Precinct, Hanging Dog Precinct, Hot House Precinct, Ogreeta Precinct, Shoal Creek Precinct and Unaka Precinct.

Sec. 3. Two candidates shall be nominated from each district by each political party for members of the Board of County Commissioners of Cherokee County and at the general elections for county officers in Cherokee County in 1966, and quadrennially thereafter there shall be elected from each district two commissioners, who must be residents of the district they represent. In the general election, the commissioners nominated from each district shall be voted on by the qualified voters of the district in which they were nominated.

Sec. 4. At its first meeting after election, the Board of Commissioners shall elect a chairman from its members. In the event of a tie vote for chairman, then each commissioner shall cast for chairman a number of votes equal in number to the total votes cast for all candidates for commissioner in his district in the general election.

Sec. 5. The chairman of the Board of County Commissioners shall have a vote on all issues and matters before the board and in the event of a tie vote on any matters before the board, the chairman shall cast an extra vote to resolve the deadlock. Four members shall constitute a quorum of the Board of Commissioners.

Sec. 6. All laws and clauses of laws in conflict with this Act are hereby repealed.

Sec. 7. 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 10th day of June, 1965.