GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA
1995 SESSION

CHAPTER 570
HOUSE BILL 1185

AN ACT TO PROVIDE STAGGERED TERMS FOR MEMBERS OF THE BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS OF THE TOWN OF LUMBER BRIDGE AND PROVIDE A FOUR-YEAR TERM FOR THE MAYOR.

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

Section 1.  Section 6 of Chapter 99 of the Private Laws of 1911, as rewritten by Chapter 226 of the Session Laws of 1967, is rewritten to read:
"Sec. 6.  (a) The Mayor shall be elected in 1997 and quadrennially thereafter for a four-year term.
(b)	In 1997, four members of the Board of Commissioners shall be elected.  The two persons receiving the highest numbers of votes are elected for four-year terms, and the two persons receiving the next highest numbers of votes are elected to two-year terms.  In 1999 and biennially thereafter, two members of the Board of Commissioners are elected for four-year terms.
(c)	Elections in the Town of Lumber Bridge shall be elected in accordance with general law."
Sec. 2.  This act is effective upon ratification.
In the General Assembly read three times and ratified this the 19th day of June, 1996.

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Dennis A. Wicker
President of the Senate

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Harold J. Brubaker
Speaker of the House of Representatives