NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1975 SESSION

CHAPTER 187

SENATE BILL 472

AN ACT AMENDING THE CHARTER OF THE TOWN OF MURPHY TO CONFORM ITS PROVISIONS TO THE UNIFORM MUNICIPAL ELECTIONS LAW, AND TO RATIFY AND CONFIRM THE ELECTION OF THE MAYOR AND BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS OF THE TOWN OF MURPHY IN NOVEMBER, 1973, FOR TERMS OF OFFICE EXPIRING IN 1977.

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

Section 1. Section 1 of Chapter 429 of the Session Laws of 1945 is rewritten to read as follows:

"Section 1. The terms of office of the persons elected at the regular municipal election of 1973 and quadrennially thereafter as Mayor and as members of the Board of Town Commissioners of the Town of Murphy shall be four years."

Sec. 2. Section 3 of Chapter 429 of the Session Laws of 1945 is rewritten to read as follows:

"Sec. 3. The election for Mayor and members of the Board of Town Commissioners of the Town of Murphy shall be conducted on a partisan basis pursuant to Articles 23 and 24 of Chapter 163 of the General Statutes of North Carolina."

Sec. 3. Section 4 of Chapter 429 of the Session Laws of 1945 is repealed.

Sec. 4. Chapter 895 of the Session Laws of 1957 is repealed.

Sec. 5. This act is effective upon ratification.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 2nd day of May, 1975.