Bill Text: NC S890 | 2015-2016 | Regular Session | Chaptered
Bill Title: Elections Every Four Years/Town of Marietta
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Passed) 2016-07-01 - Ch. SL 2016-69 [S890 Detail]
Download: North_Carolina-2015-S890-Chaptered.html
GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA
SESSION 2015
SESSION LAW 2016-69
SENATE BILL 890
AN ACT to allow the town of marietta to hold municipal elections every four years.
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
SECTION 1. Section 2.3 of the Charter of the Town of Marietta, being Chapter 111 of the 1985 Session Laws, reads as rewritten:
"Sec. 2.3. Mayor; Term of
Office; Duties. The Mayor shall be elected in the manner provided by Article
III of this Charter to serve for a term of two four years or
until his successor is elected and qualified. The Mayor shall be the official
head of the Town government and shall preside at all meetings of the Council.
He shall have the right to vote in any and all matters before the Council. The
Mayor shall exercise such powers and perform such duties as presently are or
hereinafter may be conferred upon him by the General Statutes of North
Carolina, by this Charter, and by the ordinances of the Town."
SECTION 2. Article III of the Charter of the Town of Marietta, being Chapter 111 of the 1985 Session Laws, reads as rewritten:
"Article III.
"Elections.
"Sec. 3.1. Regular Municipal
Elections; Conduct and Method of Election. Regular Beginning in 2017,
regular municipal elections shall be held in the Town every two four
years in odd‑numbered years and shall be conducted by the Robeson
County Board of Elections in accordance with the uniform municipal election
laws of North Carolina. At each such election, the Mayor and two four
members of the Council shall be elected according to the nonpartisan
plurality method of election.
"Sec. 3.2. Election of Council
Members. Members of the Town Council are elected to four‑year terms. In
1985 all four members of the Town Council shall be elected, two for four years
and two for two years, the two candidates receiving the highest number of votes
to serve for four years and the two candidates who receive the next largest
number of votes to serve for two years.The two members whose terms
expire in 2017 shall be elected to serve four‑year terms at the regular
municipal election in 2017. The two members whose terms expire in 2019 shall
continue to serve until 2021. In 1987,2021, and biennially
quadrennially thereafter, two four members shall be
elected by the voters of the Town voting at large.
"Sec. 3.3. Election of the
Mayor. At the regular municipal election in 1985,2017, and biennially
quadrennially thereafter, there shall be elected a Mayor to serve a
term of two four years. The Mayor shall be elected by the voters
of the Town voting at large.
...."
SECTION 3. This act is effective when it becomes law.
In the General Assembly read three times and ratified this the 1st day of July, 2016.
s/ Louis M. Pate, Jr.
Presiding Officer of the Senate
s/ Tim Moore
Speaker of the House of Representatives
