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type: "Bill"
title: "Pleasant Garden/Voters Elect Mayor."
description: "Pleasant Garden/Voters Elect Mayor."
jurisdiction: "us/states/nc"
legislature: "North Carolina General Assembly"
session: "2009"
identifier: "SB 540"
citation: "North Carolina SB 540 (2009)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["CHARTERS", "CITY COUNCILS", "COUNTIES", "ELECTIONS", "LOCAL", "LOCAL GOVERNMENT", "MAYORS", "MUNICIPALITIES", "RATIFIED", "SESSION LAWS", "TERM LENGTHS & LIMITS", "TITLE CHANGE", "MCDOWELL COUNTY", "CHAPTERED", "SEN. DORSETT", "PLEASANT GARDEN"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: []
version_count: 5
action_count: 15
vote_count: 1
first_action: "2009-03-11"
last_action: "2009-06-25"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/f3c3e3df-f7cc-4d85-aa65-0daf062dc3a9"
source_url: "http://www.ncleg.net/gascripts/BillLookUp/BillLookUp.pl?Session=2009&BillID=S540&votesToView=all"
source_hash: "2ddfa5e5e09c00b3ee97a295920aa3f79e2b6851f87cf60b6406c1b54eee12b7"
vintage: "2026-07-01"
source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
confidence: "reported"
tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-nc"]
---
# North Carolina SB 540 (2009) — Pleasant Garden/Voters Elect Mayor.
## Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
1. **Filed** (filed) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2009/Bills/Senate/PDF/S540v0.pdf)
2. **Edition 1** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2009/Bills/Senate/PDF/S540v1.pdf)
3. **Edition 2** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2009/Bills/Senate/PDF/S540v2.pdf)
4. **Ratified** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2009/Bills/Senate/PDF/S540v3.pdf)
5. **SL2009-167** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2009/Bills/Senate/PDF/S540v4.pdf)
## Votes
- Second Reading — **1150** (pass) · lower
## Sponsors
- Dorsett — cosponsor (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2009-06-25** Ch. SL 2009-167 `became-law`
- **2009-06-25** Ratified
- **2009-06-25** Passed 2nd & 3rd Reading `passage, reading-2, reading-3`
- **2009-06-24** Placed On Cal For 6/25/2009
- **2009-06-24** Cal Pursuant Rule 36(b)
- **2009-06-24** Reptd Fav `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2009-05-27** Re-ref Com On Election Law and Campaign Finance Reform `referral-committee`
- **2009-05-27** Reptd Fav `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2009-05-18** Ref to the Com on Local Government I, if favorable, Election Law and Campaign Finance Reform `referral-committee`
- **2009-05-18** Passed 1st Reading `reading-1`
- **2009-05-13** Passed 2nd & 3rd Reading `passage, reading-2, reading-3`
- **2009-05-12** Com Substitute Adopted
- **2009-05-12** Reptd Fav Com Substitute `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2009-03-12** Ref To Com On State and Local Government `referral-committee`
- **2009-03-11** Filed `introduction`
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/f3c3e3df-f7cc-4d85-aa65-0daf062dc3a9`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official North Carolina legislature records).