NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1963 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 523

HOUSE BILL 765

 

 

AN ACT TO AMEND CHAPTER 25, PRIVATE LAWS OF 1887, THE SAME BEING AN ACT TO INCORPORATE THE TOWN OF MAXTON, ROBESON COUNTY, SO AS TO PROVIDE COMPENSATION FOR THE MAYOR AND COMMISSIONERS OF THE SAID TOWN AND TO PRESCRIBE THE PROCEDURE FOR HOLDING MUNICIPAL ELECTIONS IN THE TOWN OF MAXTON.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

 

Section 1. Chapter 25, Private Laws of 1887, is hereby amended by repealing Sections 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 and 8, and substituting in lieu thereof the following:

"Sec. 3. The governing body shall consist of a mayor and four commissioners who shall be elected by the qualified voters of the town.

"Sec. 4. At the municipal election to be held on Tuesday after the first Monday in May, 1965, and biennially thereafter, a mayor shall be elected to serve for a term of two (2) years and until his successor is elected and qualified.

"Sec. 5. At the municipal election held pursuant to Section 4 hereof, and biennially thereafter, there shall be elected two commissioners who shall serve for a term of four (4) years and until their successors are elected and qualified.

"At the municipal election to be held in May, 1967, and biennially thereafter, there shall be elected two commissioners who shall serve for a term of four (4) years and until their successors are elected and qualified.

"Sec. 6. The candidate for the office of mayor receiving the highest number of votes shall be declared elected. The two candidates receiving the highest number of votes for the offices of commissioner shall be declared elected.

"Sec. 7. All persons desiring to become a candidate for the office of mayor or commissioner shall file a written notice of candidacy with the town clerk before 5:00 o'clock P. M. on the last Saturday of April preceding the election, on a form provided by the governing body of the town, and shall pay a filing fee not to exceed the sum of five dollars ($5.00), as determined by the governing body. No person's name shall be placed upon the general municipal election ballot unless he has complied with the conditions of this Section.

"Sec. 8. The mayor shall receive as compensation for his services the sum of six hundred dollars ($600.00) per annum, to be paid from the general fund of the town. The members of the board of commissioners shall receive a sum of ten dollars ($10.00) for each regular or special meeting of the board attended by them, said compensation to be paid from the general fund of the town: Provided, that no commissioner shall be paid for attending more than one special meeting in any calendar month and shall not be paid for any regular or special meeting which he did not attend. Provided, further, that no payments shall be made under the provisions of this Act for any meeting attended prior to July 1, 1963."

Sec. 2. G. S. 160-29, as the same appears in the 1961 Cumulative Supplement to Volume 3C of the General Statutes, is hereby amended by inserting, immediately after the word "Mountain" and immediately before the word "shall" in the last line thereof, the words "and Maxton".

Sec. 3. Except as otherwise provided in this Act, all municipal elections in the Town of Maxton shall be held and conducted in accordance with the provisions of Article 3, Chapter 160 of the General Statutes.

Sec. 4. Sections 9, 10, 11, 12 and 15 of Chapter 25, Private Laws of 1887, are hereby specifically repealed.

Sec. 5. Chapter 175, Private Laws of 1935; Chapter 121, Public-Local and Private Laws of 1939; Chapter 278, Session Laws of 1947; Chapter 314, Session Laws of 1953; Chapter 911, Session Laws of 1961, and all other laws inconsistent with the provisions of this Act are hereby specifically repealed.

Sec. 6. No provisions of this Act shall be construed as affecting the terms of office of the present Mayor and Commissioners of the Town of Maxton, Robeson County.

Sec. 7. All laws and clauses of laws in conflict with this Act are hereby repealed.

Sec. 8. This Act shall be in full force and effect from and after July 1, 1963.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 22nd day of May, 1963.