NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1967 SESSION

CHAPTER 184

HOUSE BILL 398

AN ACT TO AMEND CHAPTER 36 OF THE PRIVATE LAWS OF 1908, EXTRA SESSION, AND CHAPTER 770 OF THE SESSION LAWS OF 1968, TO PROVIDE FOUR-YEAR TERMS FOR OFFICIALS OF THE TOWN OF BAILEY.

The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

Section 1. Section 4 of Chapter 36 of the Private Laws of 1908, Extra Session, as amended by Section 2 of Chapter 770 of the Session Laws of 1963, is hereby further amended by rewriting the same to read as follows:

"Sec. 4. (a) The government of the town shall be vested in a mayor and a board of five commissioners, elected for terms of four years, as hereinafter provided.

(b)       On Tuesday after the first Monday In May, 1967, and quadrennially thereafter, there shall be elected a mayor and three commissioners to serve for terms of four years, or until their successors are elected and qualified.

(c)       On Tuesday after the first Monday in May, 1969, and quadrennially thereafter, there shall be elected two commissioners to serve for terms of four years, or until their successors are elected and qualified.

(d)       Any vacancy in the office of mayor or commissioners shall be filled by the board of commissioners, or by the remaining members thereof, for the unexpired term."

Sec. 2. The term of office of the member or members of the Board of Commissioners of the Town of Bailey who were elected in 1966 is hereby extended until filled at the regular 1969 election. The board of commissioners is hereby authorized, but not required, to fill by appointment any existing vacancy among the members thereof who were elected in 1966, such appointee to serve until such office is filled at the regular 1969 election,

Sec. 3. The notice heretofore given of the 1967 regular election in the Town of Bailey is hereby ratified, validated, and confirmed, and no further notice of such election shall be necessary.

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 All laws and clauses of laws in conflict with the provisions of this Act are hereby repealed.

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

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 11th day of April, 1967.