NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1973 SESSION

CHAPTER 382

HOUSE BILL 781

AN ACT TO AUTHORIZE AN INCREASE IN THE NUMBER OF COMMISSIONERS OF THE TOWN OF SCOTLAND NECK.

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

Section 1. The Board of Commissioners of the Town of Scotland Neck is hereby authorized to adopt by ordinance an amendment to the Town Charter rewriting Section 5 of Chapter 342 of the Private Laws of 1901, as amended by Chapter 667 of the Session Laws of 1951, and by Chapter 267 of the Session Laws of 1957, to read as follows:

"Sec. 5. At each regular election there shall be elected a Mayor to serve for a term of two years. The terms of Commissioners shall be four years. At the regular election in 1973 and quadrennially thereafter, two Commissioners shall be elected. At the regular election in 1975 and quadrennially thereafter, three Commissioners shall be elected."

Sec. 2. The Charter amendment specified in Section 1 of this act shall be effective upon adoption thereof by ordinance of the Board of Commissioners of the Town of Scotland Neck.  Should the Board of Commissioners adopt such an ordinance, it shall appoint some qualified person to serve as Commissioner until his successor is elected in the regular election in 1975.

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 All laws and clauses of laws in conflict with this act are hereby repealed.

Sec. 4. This act shall be effective upon its ratification.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 8th day of May, 1973.