NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY
EXTRA SESSION 1966
CHAPTER 1
SENATE BILL 3
AN ACT TO ESTABLISH SENATORIAL DISTRICTS AND APPORTION SEATS IN THE SENATE AMONG THOSE DISTRICTS.
The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:
Section 1. G.S. 120-1 is rewritten to read as follows:
"§ 120-1. Senate. For the purpose of nominating and electing members of the Senate in 1966 and every two years thereafter, senatorial districts are established and seats in the Senate are apportioned among those districts as follows:
District 1 shall consist of Bertie, Camden, Chowan, Currituck, Gates, Hertford, Northampton, Pasquotank, Perquimans, and Washington Counties and shall elect two Senators.
District 2 shall consist of Beaufort, Dare, Hyde, Martin, and Tyrrell Counties and shall elect one Senator.
District 3 shall consist of Carteret, Craven, and Pamlico Counties and shall elect one Senator.
District 4 shall consist of Edgecombe, Halifax, Pitt, and Warren Counties and shall elect two Senators.
District 5 shall consist of Greene, Jones, and Lenoir Counties and shall elect one Senator.
District 6 shall consist of Onslow County and shall elect one Senator.
District 7 shall consist of Franklin, Granville, and Vance Counties and shall elect one Senator.
District 8 shall consist of Johnston, Nash, and Wilson Counties and shall elect two Senators.
District 9 shall consist of Wayne County and shall elect one Senator.
District 10 shall consist of Duplin, New Hanover, Pender, and Sampson Counties and shall elect two Senators.
District 11 shall consist of Durham, Orange and Person Counties and shall elect two Senators.
District 12 shall consist of Wake County and shall elect two Senators.
District 13 shall consist of Chatham, Harnett, and Lee Counties and shall elect one Senator.
District 14 shall consist of Cumberland and Hoke Counties and shall elect two Senators.
District 15 shall consist of Bladen, Brunswick, and Columbus Counties and shall elect one Senator.
District 16 shall consist of Caswell and Rockingham Counties and shall elect one Senator.
District 17 shall consist of Alamance County and shall elect one Senator.
District 18 shall consist of Guilford and Randolph Counties and shall elect three Senators.
District 19 shall consist of Davidson, Montgomery, Moore, Richmond, and Scotland Counties and shall elect two Senators.
District 20 shall consist of Robeson County and shall elect one Senator.
District 21 shall consist of Alleghany, Ashe, Stokes, and Surry Counties and shall elect one Senator.
District 22 shall consist of Forsyth County and shall elect two Senators.
District 23 shall consist of Rowan County and shall elect one Senator.
District 24 shall consist of Anson, Cabarrus, Stanly, and Union Counties and shall elect two Senators.
District 25 shall consist of Davie, Watauga, Wilkes, and Yadkin Counties and shall elect one Senator.
District 26 shall consist of Alexander, Catawba, Iredell, and Lincoln Counties and shall elect two Senators.
District 27 shall consist of Mecklenburg County and shall elect three Senators.
District 28 shall consist of Burke and Caldwell Counties and shall elect one Senator.
District 29 shall consist of Cleveland and Gaston Counties and shall elect two Senators.
District 30 shall consist of Avery, McDowell, and Rutherford Counties and shall elect one Senator.
District 31 shall consist of Buncombe, Madison, Mitchell, and Yancey Counties and shall elect two Senators.
District 32 shall consist of Haywood, Henderson, and Polk Counties and shall elect one Senator.
District 33 shall consist of Cherokee, Clay, Graham, Jackson, Macon, Swain, and Transylvania Counties and shall elect one Senator."
Sec. 2. If any provision of this Act or the application thereof to any person or circumstances is held invalid, such invalidity shall not affect other provisions or applications of the Act which can be given effect without the invalid provision or application, and to this end the provisions of this Act are declared to be severable.
Sec. 3. All laws and clauses of laws in conflict with this Act are repealed, except that G.S. 120-1 as that Section read immediately prior to the ratification of this Act shall remain in force until November 7, 1966, for the sole purpose of governing the filling of vacancies occurring in the membership of the General Assembly elected in 1964.
Sec. 4. This Act shall take affect upon its ratification.
In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 13th day of January, 1966.