NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1963 SESSION

CHAPTER 301

HOUSE BILL 478

AN ACT TO PROVIDE FOR THE NOMINATION AND ELECTION OF THE MEMBERS OF THE BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS FOR CHOWAN COUNTY ACCORDING TO CANDIDATES FROM THE TOWNSHIPS OF SAID COUNTY.

The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

Section 1. The Board of Commissioners for the County of Chowan shall consist of five members to be nominated and elected as hereinafter provided in this Act.

Sec. 2. In the primary election to be held in Chowan County in 1964 for county officers, and biennially thereafter, there shall be nominated by each political party in the party primaries, at the same time and in the same general manner as that in which other county officers are nominated, two candidates for membership on the Board of Commissioners of Chowan County from the First Township; one candidate for membership on said board of commissioners from the Second Township; one candidate for membership on said board of commissioners from the Third Township; and, one candidate for membership on said board of commissioners from the Fourth Township.

Sec. 3. The names of the persons so nominated for membership on said board of commissioners by each political party from the respective four townships shall be placed on the official county ballot of Chowan County, with the township from which each candidate is nominated appearing opposite his name, and the candidates so nominated from the respective townships shall be voted upon by the qualified voters of Chowan County at large both in said primary and in the general election to be held in said county in 1964, and biennially thereafter.

Sec. 4. A person desiring to be nominated for membership on said board of commissioners shall be a resident and qualified elector of the township which he desires to represent on said board of commissioners, and in filing notice of candidacy the township designation shall be given along with the name of the candidate. The two candidates receiving the highest number of votes in the First Township shall be the two nominees, and in each of the other townships the person receiving the highest number of votes in each township shall be the nominee, and there shall be no second primary. If no more than two candidates file for nomination in the First Township, no primary election shall be necessary, and in each of the other townships in which no more than one candidate files, then such candidate shall be the nominee, and as to him no primary election will be necessary. Each candidate shall pay a filing fee of ten dollars ($10.00).

Sec. 5. The two candidates receiving the highest number of votes in the general election in the First Township, and the candidate receiving the highest number of votes in the general election in each of the other townships shall be declared elected to represent the respective townships as members of the Board of Commissioners for Chowan County. The members of the Board of Commissioners of Chowan County elected at the general election in the year 1964, and biennially thereafter, shall qualify by taking the oath of office at the same time that other county officers are inducted into office.

Sec. 6. All laws and clauses of laws in conflict with the provisions of this Act are hereby repealed.

Sec. 7. 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 26th day of April, 1963.