Bill Text: NC S1437 | 2010 | Regular Session | Chaptered


Bill Title: Highlands Mayor Pro Tem

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Passed) 2010-07-07 - Ch. SL 2010-58 [S1437 Detail]

Download: North_Carolina-2010-S1437-Chaptered.html

GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA

SESSION 2009

 

 

SESSION LAW 2010-58

SENATE BILL 1437

 

 

AN ACT to provide for annual election of a mayor pro tempore by the highlands town board.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

 

SECTION 1.  Section 2.4 of the Charter of the Town of Highlands, being Chapter 519 of the Session Laws of 1991, reads as rewritten:

"Sec. 2.4. Mayor Pro Tempore. The Board shall elect one of its members as Mayor Pro Tempore to perform the duties of the Mayor during the Mayor's absence or disability, in accordance with general law. The Mayor Pro Tempore shall be elected by the board: (i) in the odd‑numbered year at the organizational meeting following the regular municipal election, to serve until the first regular meeting in December of the next year, and (ii) in the even‑numbered year at the first regular meeting in December of that year, to serve until the organizational meeting following the regular municipal election. In case of a vacancy, the board shall elect a Mayor Pro Tempore to serve the remainder of the unexpired term of that office. shall serve in such capacity until the organizational meeting following the next regular municipal election, despite the contrary provisions of G.S. 160A‑70."

SECTION 2.  This act is effective when it becomes law.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified this the 7th day of July, 2010.

 

 

                                                                    s/  Walter H. Dalton

                                                                         President of the Senate

 

 

                                                                    s/  Joe Hackney

                                                                         Speaker of the House of Representatives

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