GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA

SESSION 1999

 

 

SESSION LAW 2000-86

SENATE BILL 1418

 

 

AN ACT TO PROVIDE FOR DIRECT ELECTION OF THE MAYOR OF YANCEYVILLE AND FOR THE TOWN MANAGER FORM OF GOVERNMENT FOR THAT TOWN.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

 

Section 1.  Section 3.4 of the Charter of the Town of Yanceyville, being Chapter 501 of the 1985 Session Laws, reads as rewritten:

"Sec. 3.4.  Selection of Mayor; term of office.  The Mayor shall be appointed by the Town Council from among its own membership elected by the qualified voters of the Town in 2001 and biennially thereafter for a two-year term.  The Mayor shall have the right to vote on all questions that come before the Council, but shall have no right to break a tie vote in which he participated."

Section 2.  Effective with the organizational meeting after the 2001 municipal election, Section 3.1 of the Charter of the Town of Yanceyville, being Chapter 501 of the 1985 Session Laws, reads as rewritten:

"Sec. 3.1.  Structure of governing body; number of members. The governing body of the Town of Yanceyville is the Town Council, which has five four members."

Section 3.  Section 3.3 of the Charter of the Town of Yanceyville, being Chapter 501 of the 1985 Session Laws, reads as rewritten:

"Sec. 3.3.  Term of office of Council members.  Until members are elected in accordance with this section, the Town Council shall consist of the three members of the Yanceyville Sanitary District Board, and two other persons appointed by those three members at the Town Council's first meeting in July, 1986.  The two persons on the Yanceyville Sanitary District Board whose terms expire in 1986 shall serve until the 1987 municipal election.  The person on the Yanceyville Sanitary District Board whose term expires in 1988 shall serve until the 1989 municipal election.  One of the two persons appointed to the Town Council by the three members of the Yanceyville Sanitary District Board shall serve until the 1987 municipal election, and the other shall serve until the 1989 municipal election.  The three members of the Yanceyville Sanitary District Board shall designate whom shall serve which term.  In the 1987 2003 municipal election and quadrennially thereafter, the three two persons receiving the highest numbers of votes shall be elected for four-year terms on the Town Council.  In the 1989 2001 municipal election and quadrennially thereafter, the two persons receiving the highest numbers of votes shall be elected for four-year terms on the Town Council."

Section 4.  Section 5.1 of the Charter of the Town of Yanceyville, being Chapter 501 of the 1985 Session Laws, reads as rewritten:

"Sec. 5.1.  Mayor-councilCouncil-manager plan.  The Town of Yanceyville operates under the mayor-council council-manager plan as provided by Part 3 Part 2 of Article 7 of Chapter 160A of the General Statues. Statutes."

Section 5.  This act does not affect the term of office of the current Mayor or members of the Town Council of the Town of Yanceyville, except that if in 2001 a member of the Town Council with a term expiring in 2003 is elected Mayor, then effective upon that person taking the oath of office as Mayor, the seat on the Town Council that the Mayor is vacating is abolished so that the size of the council will be four members.  If a person who is not a member of the Town Council with a term expiring in 2003 is elected Mayor in 2001, then notwithstanding Section 2 of this act, from the organizational meeting after the 2001 election until the organizational meeting after the 2003 election, the Town Council consists of five members.

Section 6.  This act is effective when it becomes law.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified this the 6th day of July, 2000.

 

 

s/   Marc Basnight

President Pro Tempore of the Senate

 

 

s/   James B. Black

Speaker of the House of Representatives