NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1959 SESSION

CHAPTER 793

HOUSE BILL 845

AN ACT REWRITING SECTION 4, CHAPTER 596, SESSION LAWS OF 1949, RELATING TO THE ELECTION OF THE MAYOR AND COMMISSIONERS OF THE TOWN OF WALLACE.

The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

Section 1. That Section 4, Chapter 596, Session Laws of 1949, be and the same is hereby rewritten to read as follows:

"Sec. 4. Creation, Salary and Composition of Mayor and Board of Commissioners. Except as otherwise provided in this charter, all powers of the town shall be vested in a Board of Commissioners of five members and a mayor, nominated and elected from the town at large in the manner hereinafter provided.

"At the general municipal election to be held in said town in 1961, there shall be elected five town commissioners. At said election the two candidates for commissioner receiving the highest number of votes shall be elected and shall serve for terms of four years each, and the three candidates receiving the next highest number of votes shall be elected and shall serve for terms of two years each. Thereafter, the term of office of each member of said Board of Commissioners shall be four years and until their successors shall be duly elected and qualified. The term of office of the mayor shall be two years and until his successor shall be duly elected and qualified. If a vacancy occurs in the office of mayor or commissioner, it shall be filled until the next general election by a majority vote of the remaining members of the Board of Commissioners.

"The mayor and each member of the Board of Commissioners shall receive a salary, the amount of which shall be prescribed by ordinance.

"The mayor and members of the Board of Commissioners shall be qualified electors of the town. A mayor or member of the Board of Commissioners ceasing to possess any of the qualifications specified in this Section, or who shall be convicted of a felony or a crime involving moral turpitude while in office, shall immediately forfeit his office."

Sec. 2. All laws and clauses of laws in conflict with the provisions of this Act are hereby repealed.

Sec. 3. 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 9th day of June, 1959.