GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA

1983 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 976

HOUSE BILL 1528

 

AN ACT TO EXPAND THE POLK COUNTY BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS FROM THREE TO FIVE MEMBERS.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

 

Section 1.  In the 1984 General Election, two members of the Board of Commissioners of Polk County shall be elected.  The candidate receiving the highest number of votes shall be elected for a four-year term.  The candidate with the next highest number of votes shall be elected for a two-year term.

Sec. 2.  In the 1986 General Election four members of the Board of County Commissioners of Polk County shall be elected.  The two candidates receiving the highest numbers of votes shall be elected for four-year terms, and the two candidates receiving the next highest number of votes shall be elected for a two-year term.

Sec. 2.1.  In the 1988 General Election and biennially thereafter, three members of the Board of Commissioners of Polk County shall be elected.  The two candidates receiving the highest number of votes shall be elected for four-year terms, and the candidate receiving the next highest number of votes shall be elected for a two-year term.

Sec. 3.  This act shall not affect the term of office of the member of the Board of Commissioners of Polk County who was elected in 1982 to a four-year term.

Sec. 4.  Effective on the first Monday in December of 1986, the Board of Commissioners of Polk County is expanded from three to five members.

Sec. 5.  Chapter 10, Session Laws of 1945 is repealed.

Sec. 6.  This act is effective upon ratification.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 26th day of June, 1984.