GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA
SESSION 1999

SESSION LAW 1999-7
HOUSE BILL 68

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.
In the General Assembly read three times and ratified this the 22nd day of March, 1999.

s/	Marc Basnight
President Pro Tempore of the Senate

s/	James B. Black
Speaker of the House of Representatives