GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA
SESSION 2001

SESSION LAW 2001-15
HOUSE BILL 447

AN ACT EXTENDING THE TERMS OF OFFICE FOR THE MAYOR AND TOWN COMMISSIONERS OF THE TOWN OF NORWOOD AND STAGGERING THOSE TERMS.

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

SECTION 1.  Section 12 of the Charter of the Town of Norwood, being Chapter 212 of the 1905 Private Laws, reads as rewritten:
"Sec. 12.  The Commissioners and Mayor shall be elected to four-year terms by the qualified voters of the entire Town, except as provided otherwise in this section. In 2001, and quadrennially thereafter, a Mayor shall be elected to a four-year term. In 2001, for the position of Commissioner, the two persons receiving the highest numbers of votes shall be elected to four-year terms and the three persons receiving the next highest numbers of votes shall be elected to two-year terms. In 2003, and quadrennially thereafter, three persons shall be elected to four-year terms. In 2005, and quadrennially thereafter, two persons shall be elected to four-year terms."
SECTION 2.  This act is effective when it becomes law.
In the General Assembly read three times and ratified this the 9th day of April, 2001.

	s/	 Marc Basnight
	 President Pro Tempore of the Senate

	s/	 James B. Black
	 Speaker of the House of Representatives