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North Carolina Senate Bill S36

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11 GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA
22 SESSION 2025
3-S 2
3+S 1
44 SENATE BILL 36
5-Elections Committee Substitute Adopted 3/18/25
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77 Short Title: China Grove Even Year Elections. (Local)
8-Sponsors:
9-Referred to:
8+Sponsors: Senator Ford (Primary Sponsor).
9+Referred to: Rules and Operations of the Senate
1010 February 3, 2025
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1212 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1
1313 AN ACT TO PROVIDE THAT REGULAR MUNICIPAL ELECTIONS IN THE TOWN OF 2
1414 CHINA GROVE SHALL BE HELD IN EVEN-NUMBERED YEARS. 3
1515 The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts: 4
16-SECTION 1.(a) Sections 3.1, 3.2, and 3.3 of the Charter of the Town of China 5
17-Grove, being S.L. 2002-42, read as rewritten: 6
18-"Section 3.1. Regular Municipal Elections. Regular municipal elections shall be held at the 7
19-time of the general election in each odd-numbered year. even-numbered year. Except as 8
20-otherwise provided, the election shall be conducted in accordance with the uniform municipal 9
21-election laws of North Carolina. Elections shall be conducted on a nonpartisan plurality basis and 10
22-the results determined using the nonpartisan plurality method as provided in G.S. 163-292. 11
16+SECTION 1.(a) Article III of the Charter of the Town of China Grove, being Chapter 5
17+42 of the 2002 Session Laws, reads as rewritten: 6
18+"ARTICLE III. ELECTIONS. 7
19+"Section 3.1. Regular Municipal Elections. Regular municipal elections shall be held in 8
20+each odd-numbered even-numbered year in accordance with the uniform municipal election laws 9
21+of North Carolina. Elections shall be conducted on a nonpartisan basis and the results determined 10
22+using the nonpartisan plurality method as provided in G.S. 163-292. 11
2323 "Section 3.2. Election of Aldermen. The Town shall continue to have staggered terms for its 12
24-Aldermen. Two Aldermen shall be elected at the regular municipal election in 2003 to four-year 13
25-terms and quadrennially thereafter. Three Aldermen shall be elected at the regular municipal 14
26-election in 2005 to four-year terms and quadrennially thereafter.for staggered four-year terms. 15
24+Aldermen. Two Three Aldermen shall be elected at the regular municipal election in 2003 2026 13
25+to four-year terms and quadrennially thereafter. Three Two Aldermen shall be elected at the 14
26+regular municipal election in 2005 2028 to four-year terms and quadrennially thereafter. 15
2727 "Section 3.3. Election of Mayor. A Mayor shall be elected in the regular municipal election 16
28-in 2003 and quadrennially thereafter.for a four-year term." 17
29-SECTION 1.(b) No municipal elections shall be conducted in the Town of China 18
30-Grove in 2025. The terms of office for the three Aldermen serving on the effective date of this 19
31-act whose terms are set to expire in 2025 are extended by one year. The terms of office of the 20
32-two Aldermen and the Mayor serving on the effective date of this act whose terms are set to 21
33-expire in 2027 are extended by one year. Regular municipal elections in the Town of China Grove 22
34-shall resume in even-numbered years beginning in 2026 with the same staggering of terms as 23
35-when elections were conducted in the odd-numbered years. 24
28+in 2003 2028 to a four-year term and quadrennially thereafter. 17
29+…." 18
30+SECTION 1.(b) No municipal elections shall be conducted in the Town of China 19
31+Grove in 2025. The terms of office for the three Aldermen serving on the effective date of this 20
32+act whose terms are set to expire in 2025 are extended by one year. The terms of the two 21
33+Aldermen and the Mayor serving on the effective date of this act whose terms are set to expire 22
34+in 2027 are extended by one year. Regular municipal elections shall be conducted in the Town 23
35+of China Grove in even-numbered years beginning in 2026 and biennially thereafter. 24
3636 SECTION 2. This act is effective when it becomes law and applies to elections held 25
3737 on or after that date. 26