NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1959 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 1119

HOUSE BILL 1306

 

 

AN ACT AMENDING THE CHARTER OF THE TOWN OF BRIDGETON, IN CRAVEN COUNTY, BY REPEALING THE STATUTE REQUIRING THE NOMINATION OF CANDIDATES FOR MUNICIPAL OFFICERS BY PRIMARY ELECTIONS, AND FIXING THE DATE FOR GENERAL MUNICIPAL ELECTIONS IN SAID TOWN.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

 

Section 1. That each and every subsection of Section 2, Chapter 58, Private Laws of 1935, be and the same is hereby repealed.

Sec. 2. That Section 3 of Chapter 177, Public-Local Laws of 1937, as amended by Chapter 240, Session Laws of 1957, be and the same is hereby rewritten to read as follows:

"Sec. 3. That a general election shall be held in said Town of Bridgeton on the first Saturday in June, 1961, and biennially thereafter, under the applicable provisions of Chapters 160 and 163 of the General Statutes, and that the polls shall be opened at 6:30 A. M. and remain open until 6:30 P. M. for such election."

Sec. 3. All laws and clauses of laws in conflict with this Act are hereby repealed.

Sec. 4. This Act shall be in full force and effect from and after its ratification.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 17th day of June, 1959.