A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT to PROVIDE THAT REGULAR MUNICIPAL ELECTIONS IN THE VILLAGE OF SIMPSON SHALL BE HELD IN EVEN‑NUMBERED YEARS.
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
SECTION 1.(a)  Sections 4.1 and 4.2 of the Charter of the Village of Simpson, being that Charter approved by the Municipal Board of Control and filed with the Secretary of State on April 7, 1975, as amended by Ordinance No. 09‑O‑01 of the Village of Simpson, adopted on July 20, 2009, read as rewritten:
"Section 4.1. Regular Municipal Elections. Regular municipal elections shall be held at the time of the general election in each even‑numbered year.
"Section 4.2. Regulation of Elections. Except as otherwise provided, all municipal elections shall be conducted by the Pitt County Board of Elections in accordance with the uniform municipal election laws of Chapter 163 of the General Statutes. The municipal elections shall be conducted on a nonpartisan basis and results determined by a nonpartisan plurality method in accordance with G.S. 163‑292."
SECTION 1.(b)  No municipal elections shall be conducted in the Village of Simpson in 2025. The terms of the Mayor and the three members of the Village Council serving on the effective date of this act whose terms are set to expire in 2025 shall be extended by one year. Regular municipal elections shall be conducted in the Village of Simpson in even‑numbered years beginning in 2026.
SECTION 2.  This act is effective when it becomes law and applies to elections held on or after that date.