GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA

SESSION 2007

 

 

SESSION LAW 2008-104

HOUSE BILL 472

 

 

AN ACT to move elections for the town of roper to the tuesday after the first monday in November in odd-numbered years.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

 

SECTION 1.  Section 3 of the Charter of the Town of Roper, being Chapter 24, Private Laws of 1907, reads as rewritten:

"Sec. 3. That the officers of said corporation shall consist of a mayor, three commissioners, regular and special policemen, clerk and treasurer, and such other officers as the town may elect, and the following named persons shall fill the offices of mayor and commissioners from their qualification until the first Tuesday after the first Monday in May, one thousand nine hundred and seven, and until their successors are elected and qualified:  For mayor, Thomas W. Blount, and for commissioners, L.G. Roper, N.B. Mizell, and W.C. Thompson.appoint. Elections for mayor and commissioner shall be determined by the nonpartisan plurality method in accordance with G.S. 163-292 and shall be held at the time set forth in G.S. 163-279(a)(1)."

SECTION 2.  This act applies to elections held in 2009 and thereafter.

SECTION 3.  This act is effective when it becomes law.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified this the 16th day of July, 2008.

 

 

                                                                    s/ Beverly E. Perdue

                                                                         President of the Senate

 

 

                                                                    s/ Joe Hackney

                                                                         Speaker of the House of Representatives