80-202. Qualifications and oaths of certain township officials. Every person elected to the office of trustee, clerk or treasurer of any township, or road overseer of any road district, shall be an elector of said township or road district at the time of his or her election, and shall within twenty (20) days after he shall be notified of his or her election take and subscribe the oath of office prescribed by law, and shall forthwith cause such oath to be filed in the office of the county clerk of his or her county; and in case any of such officers shall become nonresidents of their respective townships or road districts, their offices shall at once become vacant.

History: G.S. 1868, ch. 110, § 16; L. 1883, ch. 146, § 1; R.S. 1923, 80-202; L. 1973, ch. 134, § 55; L. 1974, ch. 446, § 26; July 1.