GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA
1995 SESSION
CHAPTER 698
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
Section 1. Section 4.1(f) of the Charter of the City of Rockingham, being Chapter 1265 of the Session Laws of 1973, reads as rewritten:
"(f) The city council
shall consist of five (5) members. In the regular municipal election
on the first Tuesday after the first Monday of November, 1975, two candidates
shall be elected for four-year terms, and one candidate shall be elected for a
two-year term. In the regular municipal election on the first Tuesday
after the first Monday of November, 1977, and each regular municipal election
held biennially thereafter, two candidates shall be elected for four-year
terms, and one candidate for a two-year term. In the regular
municipal election in 1995 and quadrennially thereafter, three candidates shall
be elected for four-year terms. In the regular municipal election in 1997
and quadrennially thereafter, two candidates shall be elected for four-year
terms. Members shall serve until their successors are elected and
qualify. Candidates for election as members of the city council shall
announce, at the time of filing notice of candidacy, the length of term for
which they are a candidate and shall be elected only for the term for which
they have announced. In each general election, the two candidates receiving the
highest number of votes for the four-year terms, and the one candidate
receiving the highest number of votes for the two-year term shall be declared
elected for these respective terms. Elections are conducted by the
nonpartisan plurality method and the results determined in accordance with G.S.
163-292."
Sec. 2. This act has the affect of extending to four years the term of office of the person elected to the Rockingham City Council in 1995 for a two-year term, as if this act had been ratified prior to the date of the election.
Sec. 3. This act is effective upon ratification.
In the General Assembly read three times and ratified this the 21st day of June, 1996.
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Dennis A. Wicker
President of the Senate
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Harold J. Brubaker
Speaker of the House of Representatives