GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA
SESSION 1999

SESSION LAW 2000-86
SENATE BILL 1418

AN ACT TO PROVIDE FOR DIRECT ELECTION OF THE MAYOR OF YANCEYVILLE AND FOR THE TOWN MANAGER FORM OF GOVERNMENT FOR THAT TOWN.

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

Section 1.  Section 3.4 of the Charter of the Town of Yanceyville, being Chapter 501 of the 1985 Session Laws, reads as rewritten:
"Sec. 3.4.  Selection of Mayor; term of office.  The Mayor shall be elected by the qualified voters of the Town in 2001 and biennially thereafter for a two-year term.  The Mayor shall have the right to vote on all questions that come before the Council, but shall have no right to break a tie vote in which he participated."
Section 2.  Effective with the organizational meeting after the 2001 municipal election, Section 3.1 of the Charter of the Town of Yanceyville, being Chapter 501 of the 1985 Session Laws, reads as rewritten:
"Sec. 3.1.  Structure of governing body; number of members. The governing body of the Town of Yanceyville is the Town Council, which has four members."
Section 3.  Section 3.3 of the Charter of the Town of Yanceyville, being Chapter 501 of the 1985 Session Laws, reads as rewritten:
"Sec. 3.3.  Term of office of Council members.  In the 2003 municipal election and quadrennially thereafter, the two persons receiving the highest numbers of votes shall be elected for four-year terms on the Town Council.  In the 2001 municipal election and quadrennially thereafter, the two persons receiving the highest numbers of votes shall be elected for four-year terms on the Town Council."
Section 4.  Section 5.1 of the Charter of the Town of Yanceyville, being Chapter 501 of the 1985 Session Laws, reads as rewritten:
"Sec. 5.1.  Council-manager plan.  The Town of Yanceyville operates under the council-manager plan as provided by Part 2 of Article 7 of Chapter 160A of the General Statutes."
Section 5.  This act does not affect the term of office of the current Mayor or members of the Town Council of the Town of Yanceyville, except that if in 2001 a member of the Town Council with a term expiring in 2003 is elected Mayor, then effective upon that person taking the oath of office as Mayor, the seat on the Town Council that the Mayor is vacating is abolished so that the size of the council will be four members.  If a person who is not a member of the Town Council with a term expiring in 2003 is elected Mayor in 2001, then notwithstanding Section 2 of this act, from the organizational meeting after the 2001 election until the organizational meeting after the 2003 election, the Town Council consists of five members.
Section 6.  This act is effective when it becomes law.
In the General Assembly read three times and ratified this the 6th day of July, 2000.

s/	Marc Basnight
President Pro Tempore of the Senate

s/	James B. Black
Speaker of the House of Representatives