NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1977 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 271

SENATE BILL 401

 

 

AN ACT TO REVISE THE CHARTER OF THE TOWN OF BOLTON IN COLUMBUS COUNTY.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

 

Section 1.  The inhabitants of the territory described in Section 2 of this act are a body corporate and politic under the name of the "Town of Bolton".  Under that name they have all the powers, duties, rights, privileges, and immunities conferred and imposed on cities by the general laws of North Carolina.

Sec. 2. Until modified in accordance with law, the boundaries of the Town of Bolton remain as described in Private Laws of 1915, Chapter 240, Section 2.

Sec. 3. The governing body of the Town of Bolton is the board of aldermen, which has five members, and the mayor.

Sec. 4. The qualified voters of the entire town shall elect the members of the board of aldermen.

Sec. 5. In the regular municipal election held in 1977, the three members elected with the highest number of votes shall be elected to four-year terms, and the two members elected with the next highest number of votes shall be elected to two-year terms. Thereafter, as the terms of office expire, members shall be elected to four-year terms.

Sec. 6. The qualified voters of the entire town elect the mayor for a two-year term of office.

Sec. 7. Town officers shall be elected on a nonpartisan basis and the results determined by plurality, as provided by G.S. 163-292.

Sec. 8. The Town of Bolton operates under the mayor-council plan as provided in Chapter 160A, Article 7, Part 3.

Sec. 9. Chapter 240 of the Private Laws of 1915 is repealed.

Sec. 10. This act shall become effective upon ratification.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 29th day of April, 1977.