GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA
SESSION 2025
H 2
HOUSE BILL 17
Committee Substitute Favorable 3/4/25
Short Title: Extend Term of Mayor/Town of Madison. (Local)
Sponsors:
Referred to:
January 30, 2025
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A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1
AN ACT TO EXTEND THE TERM OF OFFICE OF THE MAYOR OF THE TOWN OF 2
MADISON FROM TWO YEA RS TO FOUR YEARS. 3
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts: 4
SECTION 1. Section 3.3(a) of the Charter of the Town of Madison, being Chapter 5
289 of the 1973 Session Laws, as amended by S.L. 2004-54, reads as rewritten: 6
"(a) The members of the Board of Aldermen shall serve for staggered terms of four years, 7
and the Mayor shall serve for a term of two years, beginning the day and hour of the 8
organizational meeting following their election, as established by ordinance in accordance with 9
this Charter; provided, they shall serve until their successors are elected and qualify. In the 2005 10
municipal election, six members shall be elected. The three persons receiving the highest 11
numbers of votes shall receive four-year terms, and the three persons receiving the next highest 12
numbers of votes shall receive two-year terms. In 2007 and biennially thereafter, three members 13
shall be elected for four-year terms.four years." 14
SECTION 2. This act is effective when it becomes law and applies to elections held 15
on or after that date. 16