GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA

1985 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 94

SENATE BILL 118

 

AN ACT TO AMEND THE CHARTER OF THE TOWN OF RHODHISS TO PROVIDE FOR A FOUR-YEAR TERM FOR THE MAYOR AND STAGGERED FOUR-YEAR TERMS FOR THE BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

 

Section 1.  Section 5 of Chapter 84, Private Laws of 1903, as rewritten by Section 2 of Chapter 471, Session Laws of 1961, is rewritten to read:

"Sec. 5.  (a) The mayor shall be elected in 1985 and quadrennially thereafter for a four-year term.

(b)       In 1985, four commissioners shall be elected. The two persons receiving the highest numbers of votes shall be elected for four-year terms, and the two persons receiving the next highest numbers of votes shall be elected for two-year terms. In 1987 and biennially thereafter, commissioners shall be elected for four-year terms.

(c)       All elections shall be conducted in accordance with Chapter 163 of the General Statutes."

Sec. 2.  This act is effective upon ratification.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 15th day of April, 1985.