GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA
SESSION 2001

SESSION LAW 2001-131
HOUSE BILL 667

AN ACT increasing the number of commissioners for the town of new london, extending the terms of office for the town's commissioners and mayor, and staggering those terms.

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

SECTION 1.  Section 3 of the Charter of the Town of New London, being Chapter 91 of the 1907 Private Laws, as amended, reads as rewritten:
"Sec. 3.  The officers of the town shall consist of a mayor and five commissioners, and they 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.  Section 15 of the Charter of the Town of New London, being Chapter 91 of the 1907 Private Laws, as amended, is repealed.
SECTION 3.  This act is effective when it becomes law.
In the General Assembly read three times and ratified this the 28th day of May, 2001.

	s/	 Beverly E. Perdue
	 President of the Senate

	s/	 Joe Hackney
	 Speaker Pro Tempore of the House of Representatives