GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA
1991 SESSION

CHAPTER 169
SENATE BILL 557

AN ACT TO AMEND THE CHARTER OF THE TOWN OF DANBURY.

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

Section 1.  Sections 3 and 4 of Chapter 1302 of the 1957 Session Laws are repealed.
Sec. 2.  Chapter 1302 of the 1957 Session Laws is amended by adding a new section to read:
"Sec. 4.1. (a)  Four Council members shall be elected at the regular municipal election in 1991.  The two persons receiving the highest number of votes shall be elected to four-year terms, and the two persons receiving the next highest number of votes shall be elected to two-year terms.  In 1993, and quadrennially thereafter, two Council members shall be elected to four-year terms.
(b)	The Mayor shall continue to serve a two-year term and shall be elected at each regular municipal election.
(c)	Vacancies that occur in any elective office of the Town shall be filled by appointment of the Town Council for the remainder of the unexpired term."
Sec. 3.  The Council members serving on the date of ratification of this act shall serve until the expiration of their terms or until their successors are elected and qualified.
Sec. 4.  This act is effective upon ratification.
In the General Assembly read three times and ratified this the 30th day of May, 1991.

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James C. Gardner
President of the Senate

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Daniel Blue, Jr.
Speaker of the House of Representatives