AN ACT to change the name of the governing board of the town of bakersville from the board of aldermen to the town council, to provide that the mayor shall be elected to a four‑year term, and to provide that the town council shall be elected for two- and four‑year terms.

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

SECTION 1.  The governing board of the Town of Bakersville is the Town Council, which consists of three members.
SECTION 2.  The Mayor of the Town of Bakersville shall be elected in 2005 and quadrennially thereafter for a four‑year term.
SECTION 3.  In 2005, the three members of the Town Council of the Town of Bakersville shall be elected.  The candidate receiving the highest number of votes shall be elected to a four‑year term, and the two candidates receiving the next highest numbers of votes shall each be elected to a two‑year term. In 2007 and biennually thereafter, two members shall be elected to two‑year terms.  In 2009 and quadrennially thereafter, one member shall be elected to a four‑year term.
SECTION 4.  Section 3 of Chapter 1291 of the 1955 Session Laws is repealed.
SECTION 5.  This act is effective when it becomes law.
In the General Assembly read three times and ratified this the 16th day of May, 2005.

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		 Beverly E. Perdue
	 President of the Senate

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		 James B. Black
	 Speaker of the House of Representatives