NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY
1965 SESSION

CHAPTER 292
HOUSE BILL 482

AN ACT RELATING TO THE MAYOR AND COMMISSIONERS OF THE TOWN OF BLADENBORO.

The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

Section 1. The Town of Bladenboro is hereby divided into two wards. Ward No. 1 shall consist of all the territory within the corporate limits East of North Carolina Highways Nos. 242 and 410, and Ward No. 2 shall consist of all the territory within the corporate limits West of said highways.
In the municipal primary or primaries hereafter held preceding the regular biennial municipal election in the Town of Bladenboro, there shall be nominated by each of the political parties participating therein two candidates for the offices of Town Commissioners from Ward 1 and two candidates for the offices of Town Commissioners from Ward 2 and one candidate from the Town at large without regard to wards. At the regular municipal election in the Town of Bladenboro in 1965, and biennially thereafter, a total of five Town Commissioners shall be elected, two from Ward 1, two from Ward 2, and one from the Town at large. Voting in the primary and regular municipal elections as to all Commissioners shall be by all of the voters of the Town at large.
No mayor shall be elected at the 1965 Town of Bladenboro municipal election or at any succeeding municipal election. In lieu thereof, at their first meeting after election biennially, the Town Commissioners shall designate one of themselves to be mayor and he shall hold such position until his term as Commissioner expires. The mayor shall have the same right to vote as any other Commissioner but he shall not be entitled to vote a second time to break a tie.
Sec. 2. G. S. 163‑175 is hereby amended by adding the following sentence at the end of the second paragraph of subdivision (6), as the same appears in the 1964 Replacement Volume of the General Statutes:
"The subdivision in brackets shall also apply to municipal primary and general elections in the Town of Bladenboro in Bladen County."
Sec. 3. All laws and clauses of laws in conflict with this Act are hereby repealed.
Sec. 4. This Act shall be in full force and effect upon its ratification.
In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 20th day of April, 1965.