A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT to expand the membership of the cabarrus county board of commissioners.
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
SECTION 1.  Effective the first Monday in December 2008, the membership of the Cabarrus County Board of Commissioners shall be increased by two members.  
SECTION 2.  The county executive committee of each political party in Cabarrus County shall nominate two qualified voters of the county, whose names shall be placed on the ballot in the 2008 general election.  The qualified individual receiving the largest number of votes in that election shall serve a term of four years.  The qualified individual receiving the next largest number of votes in that election shall serve a two-year term.
SECTION 3.  For 2010, and thereafter, the two members described in Section 1 of this act shall be elected on a partisan basis at the same time as other members of the Cabarrus County Board of Commissioners.
SECTION 4.  This act is effective when it becomes law.