NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1965 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 476

SENATE BILL 303

 

 

AN ACT AMENDING G. S. 153-5, FIXING THE TERM OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS IN WAYNE COUNTY.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

 

Section 1. G. S. 153-5 is hereby amended by adding at the end thereof the following:

"At the general election for county officers to be held in Wayne County in 1966, there shall be elected five (5) county commissioners. The three (3) candidates receiving the highest number of votes shall serve for a term of four (4) years each, and the two (2) candidates receiving the next highest number of votes shall serve for a term of two (2) years each. At the general election for county officers in 1968, and biennially thereafter, there shall be elected candidates equal to the number Of commissioners whose terms next expire, who shall serve for a term of four (4) years and until their successors are elected and qualified."

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 All laws and clauses of laws in conflict with this Act are hereby repealed.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 11th day of May, 1965.