NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1969 SESSION

CHAPTER 102

HOUSE BILL 36

AN ACT TO AMEND THE CHARTER OF THE CITY OF MOUNT HOLLY SO AS TO CREATE A CITY COUNCIL CONSISTING OF FIVE MEMBERS.

The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

Section 1.  Chapter 86, Session Laws of 1961, is hereby amended by rewriting Section 2 of Chapter II thereof to read as follows:

"Sec. 2. Number; Election; Staggered Terms of City Councilmen. The City Council shall consist of five (5) members until the municipal election of 1971 when it shall be increased to six (6) members, who shall be elected at large by and from the qualified voters of the City, and who shall serve for a term of four (4) years and until their successors are elected and qualified.

"At the regular municipal election held in 1969, three (3) councilmen shall be elected for a term of four (4) years; at the regular municipal election held in 1971, three (3) councilmen shall be elected for a term of four (4) years; and at the regular biennial municipal election thereafter, there shall be elected to the City Council the number of members equal to the number of members whose terms next expire. Nothing herein shall affect the term of the two (2) members whose present term expires in 1971."

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 All laws and clauses of laws in conflict with this Act are hereby repealed.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 21st day of March, 1969.