GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA
SESSION 1997
SESSION LAW 1998-88
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
Section 1. Section 3(c) of the Charter of the City of Havelock, being Chapter 952 of the 1959 Session Laws, as rewritten by Chapter 152 of the 1977 Session Laws, reads as rewritten:
"(c) If a vacancy, for any
reason, occurs on the board of commissioners, the remaining members shall,
within 30 days, appoint a qualified person to fill the vacancy as provided
herein. If the vacancy occurs in the first two years of a four-year term, and
more than 30 days three days before the end of the filing period for
that office as provided by the General Statutes prior to the regular
municipal election, the person appointed shall serve until the next statutory
organizational meeting of the board after the election. At the regular
municipal election, a person shall be elected for the unexpired term, the
candidate for commissioner who receives the next highest number of votes after
the candidates for commissioner who are elected for full terms pursuant to
subsection (a) of this section is elected to the unexpired term, said term
to begin on the date of the organizational meeting. A voter may vote for no
more than the number of full and unexpired terms to be filled at the
election. A vacancy occurring otherwise shall be filled for the
unexpired term."
Section 2. This act is effective when it becomes law.
In the General Assembly read three times and ratified this the 11th day of August, 1998.
s/ Dennis A. Wicker
President of the Senate
s/ Harold J. Brubaker
Speaker of the House of Representatives