A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT relating to the manner of election and organization of the board of COMMISSIONERS of yancey county.
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
SECTION 1.  Effective on the first Monday in December of 2010, the Board of Commissioners of Yancey County is expanded from three to five members, elected as follows:
(1)	In 2010 there shall be elected five members, the two persons receiving the highest numbers of votes are elected for four‑year terms, and the three persons receiving the next highest numbers of votes are elected to two‑year terms.
(2)	In 2012 and biennially thereafter, there shall be elected three members, the two persons receiving the highest numbers of votes are elected for four‑year terms, and the person receiving the next highest number of votes is elected to a two‑year term.
SECTION 2.  Beginning with the 2010 general election, the office of chairman of the Board of Commissioners of Yancey County is abolished as a separately elective office. Instead, effective on the first Monday in December of 2010, the selection of chairman shall be in accordance with G.S. 153A‑39.
SECTION 3.  Chapter 127 of the General Statutes, Public‑Local Acts of 1923, is repealed.
SECTION 4.  This act is effective when it becomes law.