NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1969 SESSION

CHAPTER 589

HOUSE BILL 913

AN ACT TO PROVIDE FOR THE NOMINATION AND ELECTION OF THE BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS OF CHEROKEE COUNTY BY DISTRICTS.

The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

Section 1.  The Board of County Commissioners of Cherokee County shall be composed of three members who shall be elected for a term of four years, and shall be elected from districts as hereinafter provided.

Sec. 2. For the purposes of nominating and electing members of the County Board of Commissioners, the county is hereby divided into three districts, to be numbered and designated as follows: District No. 1 shall be composed of Topton, Andrews N. Ward, Andrews S. Ward, and Marble; District No. 2 shall be composed of Murphy N. Ward, Murphy S. Ward, Hanging Dog, Ogreta and Grape Creek; District No. 3 shall be composed of Peachtree, Brasstown, Culberson, Burnt Meeting House, Shoal Creek, Unaka, Walker School House and Hot House.

Sec. 3. One candidate may be nominated from each district by each political party for members of the Board of County Commissioners of Cherokee County and at the general elections for county officers in Cherokee County in 1970 and quadrennially thereafter there shall be elected from each district one commissioner, who must be a resident of the district he represents. In the general election, the commissioner nominated from each district shall be voted on by the qualified voters of the district in which he was nominated.

Sec. 4. At its first meeting after election, the Board of Commissioners shall elect a chairman from its members.

Sec. 5. All laws and clauses of laws in conflict with this Act are hereby repealed.

Sec. 6. 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 23rd day of May, 1969.