NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1959 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 278

SENATE BILL 168

 

 

AN ACT TO AMEND CHAPTER 237 OF THE SESSION LAWS OF 1951 RELATING TO THE ELECTION OF MEMBERS OF THE BOARD OF ALDERMEN OF THE TOWN OF SOUTHPORT.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

 

Section 1. Section 3 of Chapter 237 of the Session Laws of 1951 is hereby amended by adding a new paragraph at the end thereof to read as follows:

"At the municipal election to be held in May, 1959, the candidate from each ward who receives the highest number of votes shall be elected and serve for a term of four years and the candidate in each ward receiving the second highest number of votes at said election shall be elected and shall serve for a term of two years. Biennially thereafter, one alderman from each ward shall be elected by the voters at large for a four-year term."

Sec. 2. All laws and clauses of laws in conflict with this Act are hereby repealed.

Sec. 3. This Act shall be in full force and effect from and after its ratification.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 14th day of April, 1959.