GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA

1983 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 269

SENATE BILL 190

 

AN ACT TO CHANGE THE MITCHELL COUNTY TAX COLLECTOR FROM AN ELECTIVE TO AN APPOINTIVE POSITION.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

 

Section 1.  Section 7 of Chapter 973, Session Laws of 1967 is amended by deleting the words "Tax Collector,".

Sec. 2.  No Tax Collector shall be elected by the voters of Mitchell County in 1984 or thereafter.

Sec. 3.  A Tax Collector shall be appointed by the Mitchell County Board of Commissioners under G.S. 105-349 on or after the first Monday in December of 1984.  The current Tax Collector of Mitchell County shall serve until that date and until his successor is appointed and qualified.  Any vacancy in the office of Mitchell County Tax Collector occurring before the first Monday in December of 1984 shall be filled by an appointment by the Mitchell County Board of Commissioners to serve the remainder of the unexpired term.

Sec. 4.  This act is effective upon ratification.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 6th day of May, 1983.