NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1963 SESSION

CHAPTER 351

HOUSE BILL 647

AN ACT TO AMEND G. S. 153-5 TO PROVIDE FOR STAGGERED TERMS OF OFFICE FOR THE COUNTY COMMISSIONERS OF GREENE COUNTY.

The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

Section 1. G. S. 153-5, as the same appears in the 1961 Cumulative Supplement to Volume 3C of the General Statutes, is amended by adding the following at the end thereof:

"At the election for county officers to be held in Greene County in 1964, there shall be elected five county commissioners. The two candidates receiving the highest number of votes shall serve for a term of four (4) years each. The three candidates receiving the next highest number of votes shall serve for a term of two (2) years each.

"At the election for county officers to be held in Greene County in 1966, and quadrennially thereafter, there shall be elected three county commissioners who shall serve for terms of four (4) years each and until their successors are elected and qualified. At the election to be held in Greene County in 1968, and quadrennially thereafter, there shall be elected two county commissioners who shall serve for terms of four (4) years each and until their successors are elected and qualified."

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 All laws and clauses of laws in conflict with this Act are hereby repealed.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 3rd day of May, 1963,