GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA

SESSION 1999

H	2

HOUSE BILL 68
Committee Substitute Favorable 2/25/99

Short Title:  Town of China Grove.	(Local)

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February 11, 1999

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT TO PROVIDE FOUR-YEAR TERMS FOR THE MAYOR AND ALDERMEN OF THE TOWN OF CHINA GROVE.
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
Section 1.  Section 3 of the Charter of the Town of China Grove, being Chapter 309 of the Private Laws of 1903, reads as rewritten:
"Sec. 3. The officers of the town shall be a Mayor and five Aldermen, who shall be elected to four-year terms, except as provided otherwise in this section.
In 1999, and quadrennially thereafter, a Mayor shall be elected to a four-year term.
In 1999, for the position of Alderman, the two persons receiving the highest number of votes shall be elected to four-year terms and the three persons receiving the next highest number of votes shall be elected to two-year terms.  In 2001, and quadrennially thereafter, three persons shall be elected to four-year terms.  In 2003, and quadrennially thereafter, two persons shall be elected to four-year terms."
Section 2. This act applies beginning with persons elected in 1999.
Section 3. This act is effective when it becomes law.