Title: S.L. 1959-564

NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY
1959 SESSION

CHAPTER 564
HOUSE BILL 738

AN ACT RELATING TO THE TERMS OF OFFICE OF THE MEMBERS OF THE BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS OF LEE COUNTY.

The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

Section 1. If there be called and held an election in Lee County prior to or on the date of the general election in 1960 on the question of nominating candidates for the office of county commissioners by districts, there shall be called and held on the same date an election on the question of whether the terms of office of members of the board of county commissioners shall be for two years. At said election there shall be submitted to the voters a ballot on which shall be printed the words "For two‑year terms of office of County Commissioners", and the words "Against two‑year terms of office of County Commissioners" with appropriate squares printed to the left of each proposition upon which the voter shall indicate his choice. If at said election a majority of the votes cast are in favor of two‑year terms of office of county commissioners, then, and in such event, the successors of the members whose terms of office expire in 1960 shall serve for terms of two years each and until their successors are elected and qualified. Thereafter, as the terms of office of the several members expire, their successors shall be elected and shall serve for terms of two 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 All laws and clauses of laws in conflict with this Act are hereby repealed.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 20th day of May, 1959.