NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1977 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 205

HOUSE BILL 557

 

 

AN ACT TO PROVIDE FOR THE ELECTION AND TERM OF THE BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS OF CABARRUS COUNTY.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

 

Section 1. The Board of County Commissioners of Cabarrus County shall consist of five members who shall serve for staggered terms of four years as herein provided.

Beginning with the regular primary and general election for county officers to be held in 1978, there shall be nominated and elected five commissioners who shall be nominated and elected by the voters of the entire county. In the 1978 general election, the three candidates receiving the highest number of votes shall be elected for terms of four years, and the two candidates receiving the next highest number of votes shall be elected for terms of two years. Thereafter, as the terms of the members expire, their successors shall be elected for terms of four years.

Sec. 2.  The portions of Chapter 451, Public-Local Laws of 1939 relating to the election and terms of the county commissioners, and all other laws in conflict with this act, are hereby repealed.

Sec. 3.  This act shall become effective upon ratification.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 15th day of April, 1977.