GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA
1995 SESSION

CHAPTER 663
HOUSE BILL 1256

AN ACT TO PROVIDE STAGGERED TERMS FOR THE GOVERNING BOARD OF THE TOWN OF SPRUCE PINE, AND CONCERNING THE VOTING POWER OF THE MAYOR.

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

Section 1.  Section 3 of Chapter 335 of the Private Laws of 1913 is rewritten to read:
"Sec. 3. (a) The governing board of the Town of Spruce Pine is the Town Council, which has four members, and the Mayor.  They are elected by the qualified voters of the town.
(b)	Four members of the Town Council shall be elected in 1997.  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 for two-year terms.  In 1999 and biennially thereafter, two members are elected for four-year terms.
(c)	The Mayor is elected in 1997 and biennially thereafter for a two-year term.
(d)	The Mayor shall vote on all matters before the council as if a member of the council under G.S. 160A-75."
Sec. 2.  The increase in size of the council becomes effective at the organizational meeting following the 1997 municipal election.
Sec. 3.  This act is effective upon ratification.
In the General Assembly read three times and ratified this the 21st 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