NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1979 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 1171

HOUSE BILL 1685

 

 

AN ACT TO EXPAND THE SIZE OF THE BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS OF THE TOWN OF CLEVELAND IN ROWAN COUNTY FROM THREE TO FIVE MEMBERS.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

 

Section 1. Section 9 of Chapter 160, Private Laws of 1927, is amended to read:

"Sec. 9. The corporate powers of the Town of Cleveland shall be vested in and exercised by a mayor and board of five commissioners who shall be biennially elected by the qualified voters of the town."

Sec. 2. Section 11 of Chapter 160, Private Laws of 1927, is amended to read:

"Sec. 11. At the municipal election in 1980, and biennially thereafter, there shall be elected by the qualified voters of the Town of Cleveland two commissioners. At the municipal election in 1981, and biennially thereafter, there shall be elected by the qualified voters of the Town of Cleveland a mayor and three town commissioners. The persons so elected shall take office as provided in G.S. 160A-68. The said election shall be conducted in accordance with the procedures of Subchapter IX of Chapter 163 of the General Statutes, and the results determined in accordance with the nonpartisan plurality method provided in G.S. 163-292. The elections in even-numbered years shall be governed by the same regulations as the elections in odd-numbered years."

Sec. 3. This act shall become effective beginning with the 1980 municipal election.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 23rd day of June, 1980.