GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA
1995 SESSION

CHAPTER 30
HOUSE BILL 313

AN ACT TO AMEND THE CHARTER OF THE CITY OF MOUNT AIRY TO CHANGE FROM PARTISAN TO NONPARTISAN THE METHOD OF ELECTING THE MAYOR AND BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS.

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

Section 1.  Section 11a of the Charter of the City of Mount Airy, being Chapter 160 of the Private Laws of 1925, as enacted by Chapter 496 of the 1943 Session Laws, is rewritten to read:
"Sec. 11a.  Method of Election.
The Mayor and Commissioners shall be elected by the nonpartisan primary and election method as provided in G.S. 163-294, with the two board members who are apportioned to each ward being required to reside in said ward, and with all candidates being nominated and elected by all the qualified voters of the City of Mount Airy."
Sec. 2.  This act is effective upon ratification and applies beginning with the 1995 city election.
In the General Assembly read three times and ratified this the 10th day of April, 1995.

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Dennis A. Wicker
President of the Senate

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Harold J. Brubaker
Speaker of the House of Representatives