NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1965 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 1208

HOUSE BILL 36

 

 

AN ACT RELATING TO THE PROCEDURE FOR ISSUANCE OF ABSENTEE BALLOTS FOR COUNTY BOARDS OF ELECTIONS.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

 

Section 1.  G.S. 163-56(2) is amended by adding new sentences after the word "statute" in line 14, reading as follows:

The County Board of Elections of any county may, at its option, change the hour of holding said public meetings from ten o'clock A. M., to such other hour as may be determined by the Board; and the County Board of Elections may, at its option, provide for more than one meeting on each Monday and Friday, and may fix the hour for such additional meetings; and all meetings herein provided for shall be held at the hour or hours thus fixed. If any County Board of Election changes the time of holding said meetings or provides for additional meetings on each Monday and Friday, in accordance with the option herein given, such change shall be made, and such additional meetings and the hour of each shall be specifically set, prior to the date fixed by statute for the first meeting; and no change in the hours fixed for said meetings shall thereafter be made prior to the State-wide general election. Notice of the change in hour and notice of the schedule of additional meetings, if any, shall be published in a newspaper circulated in the county, and a notice thereof shall be posted at the courthouse door of the county, at least one week prior to the time fixed for holding the first meeting.

Sec. 2.  All laws and clauses of laws in conflict with this Act are hereby repealed.

Sec. 3.  This Act shall be in full force and effect upon its ratification.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 17th day of June, 1965.