NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1969 SESSION

CHAPTER 330

HOUSE BILL 598

AN ACT RELATING TO THE ELECTION OF THE MAYOR AND COMMISSIONERS OF THE TOWN OF ROSE HILL.

The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

Section 1.  Except as otherwise provided in its charter, all powers of the Town of Rose Hill shall be vested in a Board of Commissioners, consisting of five members, and a Mayor, nominated and elected from the Town at large in the manner hereinafter provided.

At the general municipal election to be held in the Town of Rose Hill in 1969, there shall be elected a Mayor and five Town Commissioners. At said election the two candidates for Commissioner receiving the highest number of votes shall be elected and shall serve for terms of four years each, and the three candidates for Commissioner receiving the next highest number of votes shall be elected and shall serve for terms of two years each. Thereafter, the term of office of each member of said Board of Commissioners shall be four years and until their successors shall be duly elected and qualified. The Mayor shall serve for a term of four years and until his successor is elected and qualified. If a vacancy occurs in the office of Mayor or Commissioner for any reason, it shall be filled by a majority vote of the remaining members of the Board of Commissioners for the unexpired term.

The Mayor and members of the Board of Commissioners shall be qualified electors of the Town. Any mayor or member of the Board of Commissioners ceasing to possess any of the qualifications specified in this Section, or who shall be convicted of a felony or a crime involving moral turpitude while in office, shall immediately forfeit his office.

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 All laws and clauses of laws in conflict with this Act are hereby repealed.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 from and after its ratification.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 28th day of April, 1969.