The governing body of the Town of Surf City shall consist of five (5) commissioners. Municipal elections in the Town of Surf City shall be held on the second Saturday in May, 1964, and biennially thereafter. The three (3) candidates receiving the greatest number of votes in the first election shall serve for a term of four (4) years; the one receiving the greatest number of votes shall be designated as mayor for the first two (2) years of his term; the one with the second highest number of votes will be designated mayor pro tem and the one with the third highest number of votes shall perform the duties of treasurer. The two (2) receiving the next highest number of votes shall act as commissioners and shall serve for a period of two (2) years. At the municipal election to be held in 1966, and quadrennially thereafter, two (2) commissioners shall be elected for four-year terms, and at the municipal election to be held in 1968, and quadrennially thereafter, three (3) commissioners shall be elected for four-year terms, and until their successors are elected and qualified.
Pursuant to G.S. 160A-101 and G.S. 160A-102, the Charter of the Town of Surf City as set forth in chapter 829 of the 1963 Session Laws of North Carolina, as amended, is hereby further amended to provide that the mayor shall be elected by all the qualified voters of the Town of Surf City.
At the municipal election to be held in the year 2003 the Mayor elected shall serve for a term of four (4) years and elections for the position of Mayor will be held quadrennially thereafter.
(Ord. No. 1990-2, § 1, 2-6-90; Ord. No. 2003-04, 5-6-03)
Editor's note—Session Laws 1971, chapter 835 enacted subchapter IX of chapter 163 of the General Statutes of North Carolina, which now governs municipal election procedures. Section 3 of that act provides as follows:
"It is the intent of this act to make uniform the laws governing the registration of voters for and the conduct of elections in cities, towns, incorporated villages, and special districts in this state. To this end, all laws and clauses of laws, whether general, private, special or local are repealed to the extent that they are in conflict with or superseded by this act, except that provisions of town or city charters providing for elections during the calendar year 1972 shall continue in effect until such 1972 elections have been conducted and their results declared."
Section 163-279 of the General Statutes of North Carolina now governs the time of municipal elections and supersedes the second sentence of the first paragraph of this section.
By adoption of the council-manager form of government (see section 1.1 of this Charter) the term "commissioner" is no longer used. The governing body is now referred to as "the council" and the members as "councilmembers." This change will be reflected throughout the Code of Ordinances.