GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA
SESSION LAW 2001-51
AN ACT to clarify that members of the plymouth town council elected from a ward are voted on only within that ward.
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
SECTION 1. Section 3.3 of the Charter of the Town of Plymouth, being Chapter 325 of the 1995 Session Laws, reads as rewritten:
"Sec. 3.3. Election of Governing Body. Six
Council members and a Mayor shall be elected in each regular municipal
election. The qualified voters of the Town voting at large shall elect a Mayor,
and the qualified voters in each of the three wards shall elect two
Council members from each of the three wards, members, all to
serve for terms of two years, or until their successors are elected and
qualified. In each election, the candidate for Mayor who receives the largest
number of votes cast for Mayor shall be declared elected, and the two
candidates for Council member from each ward who receive the highest number of
votes cast for candidates who reside in the ward wherein in that ward
in which they reside shall be declared elected."
SECTION 2. This act is effective when it becomes law.
In the General Assembly read three times and ratified this the 7th day of May, 2001.
s/ Beverly E. Perdue
President of the Senate
s/ James B. Black
Speaker of the House of Representatives