1965/66/67 session laws – Ch.96 Sec.3
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CHAPTER 96 AN ACT RELATING TO THE ELECTION OF THE MAYOR AND THE BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS OF THE TOWN OF ELKIN IN SURRY COUNTY. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:
At such town meeting all qualified voters of the Town of Elkin shall be eligible to attend and participate in the town meeting at which the mayor of the Town of Elkin shall preside until a chairman of the meeting is elected by the meeting. Then said chairman shall preside. At such meeting there shall be nominated one candidate for mayor and five candidates for town commissioner. Any qualified voter of the Town of Elkin who is not nominated at the afore-described town meeting for mayor or town commissioner may file notice of candidacy for office as mayor or town commissioner by personally filing written notice with the town clerk not later than the fifteenth day preceding the date of the biennial municipal election. The name of the person nominated for mayor at the town meeting and all persons filing notices of candidacy for mayor with the town clerk shall be placed on the ballot to be used in the biennial municipal election and the person receiving the highest number of votes for mayor shall be declared elected mayor. All five candidates for town commissioner nominated at the town meeting and all persons who file notice of candidacy for the offices of town commissioner shall be placed on the ballot to be used in the biennial municipal election and the five persons who receive the highest number of votes for town commissioner shall be declared elected as town commissioners.