GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA
SESSION 1997

SESSION LAW 1998-38
HOUSE BILL 1288

AN ACT TO ADD TWO MEMBERS TO THE MONTREAT BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS AND TO PROVIDE FOR THE ELECTION OF THE ADDITIONAL MEMBERS.

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

Section 1.  Effective the first Monday in December of 1998, the Board of Commissioners of the Town of Montreat is increased from three to five members.
Section 2.  The persons elected to fill the two additional seats on the Board of Commissioners shall be elected in the November 3, 1998, general election, shall take office on the first Monday in December 1998, and shall hold office for terms of three years, which terms shall expire at the first organizational meeting of the Board of Commissioners after the municipal election in November 2001.  Persons elected to fill the two additional seats on the Board of Commissioners in 2001 and thereafter shall serve for terms of four years.
Section 3.  The Buncombe County Board of Elections shall hold a filing period which shall open at 12:00 noon on July 7, 1998, and close at 12:00 noon on August 4, 1998, for candidates to file for the new seats on the Board of Commissioners.
Section 4.  This act is effective when it becomes law.
In the General Assembly read three times and ratified this the 14th day of July, 1998.
s/	Dennis A. Wicker
President of the Senate

s/	Harold J. Brubaker
Speaker of the House of Representatives