NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1959 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 401

SENATE BILL 189

 

 

AN ACT PROVIDING FOR THE ELECTION OF THE COUNTY ACCOUNTANT AND TAX SUPERVISOR OF MITCHELL COUNTY, FIXING HIS SALARY AND THE SALARY OF HIS ASSISTANT, AND PROVIDING FOR FILLING VACANCIES IN SAID OFFICE.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

 

Section 1. Effective in the year 1960 the person holding the combined office of County Accountant and Tax Supervisor of Mitchell County shall be elected by the qualified electors of the county for a term of two years. In the primary elections or county conventions of the various political parties there shall be nominated in the year 1960 candidates for the combined office of County Accountant and Tax Supervisor for Mitchell County under the same rules and regulations as govern the nominations of other county officers in said county. At the general election of 1960 the names of the candidates so nominated shall be placed on the official ballot for county officers in said county. The term of the person elected to said office in the general election of 1960 shall begin on the first Monday in December, 1960, and he shall hold office until his successor shall be duly elected and qualified. Thereafter the County Accountant and Tax Supervisor for Mitchell County shall be elected biennially at the same time and under the same laws that govern the election of other county officers. In case of a vacancy occurring in said office by reason of death, resignation or any other cause, such vacancy shall be filled for the remainder of the unexpired term by appointment by the Resident Judge of the Judicial District in which Mitchell County is located.

Sec. 2. Beginning with the term commencing on the first Monday in December, 1960, the County Accountant and Tax Supervisor of Mitchell County shall receive a salary of forty-eight hundred dollars ($4800.00) per year, to be paid in equal monthly installments from the general fund of the county.

Sec. 3. Beginning with the term commencing on the first Monday in December, 1960, the County Accountant and Tax Supervisor of Mitchell County shall be entitled to appoint an assistant at a salary of twenty-seven hundred dollars ($2700.00) per year, to be paid in equal monthly installments from the general fund of the county.

Sec. 4. All laws and clauses of laws in conflict with the provisions of this Act are hereby repealed.

Sec. 5. This Act shall be in full force and effect from and after its ratification.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 30th day of April, 1959.