GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA

SESSION 2013

 

 

SESSION LAW 2014-35

HOUSE BILL 1045

 

 

AN ACT providing that regular municipal elections in the town of elkin be conducted in even‑numbered years and lengthening the terms of current town commissioners to the new election schedule.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

 

SECTION 1.  Section 3.1 of the Charter of the Town of Elkin, being Chapter 740 of the 1987 Session Laws, reads as rewritten:

"Section 3.1. Regular Municipal Elections. Regular municipal elections are shall be held in each odd‑numbered even‑numbered year in accordance with the uniform municipal elections laws of North Carolina. Elections are conducted on a nonpartisan basis and the results determined using the plurality method as provided in G.S. 163‑292."

SECTION 2.  No regular election shall be conducted in the Town of Elkin in 2015, and the terms of the mayor and the two commission members elected in 2011 are extended until the organizational meeting after the 2016 regular municipal election held in accordance with Section 1 of this act, and the terms of the three commission members elected in 2013 are extended until the organizational meeting after the 2018 regular municipal election held in accordance with Section 1 of this act.

SECTION 3.  This act becomes effective January 1, 2015.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified this the 26th day of June, 2014.

 

 

                                                                    s/  Philip E. Berger

                                                                         President Pro Tempore of the Senate

 

 

                                                                    s/  Thom Tillis

                                                                         Speaker of the House of Representatives