A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT TO PROVIDE THAT REGULAR MUNICIPAL ELECTIONS IN THE TOWN OF CHINA GROVE SHALL BE HELD IN EVEN‑NUMBERED YEARS.
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
SECTION 1.(a)  Article III of the Charter of the Town of China Grove, being Chapter 42 of the 2002 Session Laws, reads as rewritten:
"ARTICLE III. ELECTIONS.
"Section 3.1. Regular Municipal Elections. Regular municipal elections shall be held in each even‑numbered year in accordance with the uniform municipal election laws of North Carolina. Elections shall be conducted on a nonpartisan basis and the results determined using the nonpartisan plurality method as provided in G.S. 163‑292.
"Section 3.2. Election of Aldermen. The Town shall continue to have staggered terms for its Aldermen. Three Aldermen shall be elected at the regular municipal election in 2026 to four‑year terms and quadrennially thereafter. Two Aldermen shall be elected at the regular municipal election in 2028 to four‑year terms and quadrennially thereafter.
"Section 3.3. Election of Mayor. A Mayor shall be elected in the regular municipal election in 2028 to a four‑year term and quadrennially thereafter.
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SECTION 1.(b)  No municipal elections shall be conducted in the Town of China Grove in 2025. The terms of office for the three Aldermen serving on the effective date of this act whose terms are set to expire in 2025 are extended by one year. The terms of the two Aldermen and the Mayor serving on the effective date of this act whose terms are set to expire in 2027 are extended by one year. Regular municipal elections shall be conducted in the Town of China Grove in even‑numbered years beginning in 2026 and biennially thereafter.
SECTION 2.  This act is effective when it becomes law and applies to elections held on or after that date.