NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1963 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 217

SENATE BILL 32

 

 

AN ACT TO AMEND G. S. 153-5 SO AS TO INCREASE AND ALTERNATE THE TERMS OF THE MEMBERS OF THE BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS OF WILKES COUNTY.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

 

Section 1. G. S. 153-5, as the same appears in the 1961 Cumulative Supplement, is amended by rewriting paragraph 6 to read as follows:

"There shall be elected in Wilkes County at the general election to be held in 1964 five (5) members of the board of county commissioners. The two (2) candidates receiving highest votes in the 1964 election shall be elected for a term of four (4) years, and the three (3) receiving next highest vote shall be elected for two (2) years. In the 1966 election and each two (2) years thereafter, there shall be elected three (3) commissioners, the two (2)        candidates receiving the highest vote to be for a term of four (4) years and the one (1) receiving the next highest vote for a term of two (2) years, and each two (2) years thereafter, there shall be elected three (3) commissioners, the two (2) receiving highest vote for a term of four (4) years and the one (1) receiving the lowest vote for a term of two (2) years."

Sec. 2. All laws and clauses of laws in conflict with this Act are hereby repealed.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 16th day of April, 1963.