GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA
SESSION 2001

SESSION LAW 2001-51
HOUSE BILL 683

AN ACT to clarify that members of the plymouth town council elected from a ward are voted on only within that ward.

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

SECTION 1.  Section 3.3 of the Charter of the Town of Plymouth, being Chapter 325 of the 1995 Session Laws, reads as rewritten:
"Sec. 3.3. Election of Governing Body. Six Council members and a Mayor shall be elected in each regular municipal election. The qualified voters of the Town voting at large shall elect a Mayor, and the qualified voters in each of the three wards shall elect two Council members, all to serve for terms of two years, or until their successors are elected and qualified. In each election, the candidate for Mayor who receives the largest number of votes cast for Mayor shall be declared elected, and the two candidates for Council member from each ward who receive the highest number of votes cast in that ward in which they reside shall be declared elected."
SECTION 2.  This act is effective when it becomes law.
In the General Assembly read three times and ratified this the 7th day of May, 2001.

	s/	 Beverly E. Perdue
	 President of the Senate

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