NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1965 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 327

HOUSE BILL 442

 

 

AN ACT TO AMEND CHAPTER 245 OF THE SESSION LAWS OF 1947 RELATING TO THE NOMINATION AND ELECTION OF THE MEMBERS OF THE BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS OF PENDER COUNTY, SUBJECT TO A REFERENDUM VOTE OF THE PEOPLE.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

 

Section 1. Subject to the referendum election hereinafter provided for, Section 1 of Chapter 564 of the Session Laws of 1949 and Section 3 of Chapter 212 of the Session Laws of 1949 are repealed.

Sec. 2. Subject to the referendum election hereinafter provided for Sections 2 and 3 of Chapter 245 of the Session Laws of 1947 are rewritten to read as follows:

"Sec. 2. In all primary elections held for the nomination of candidates for members of the Board of Commissioners for Pender County, beginning in the year 1968, one candidate from each district of the five districts described in Section I of this Act shall be nominated by each political party for the office of County Commissioner in Pender County: Provided, however, that in any primary election the qualified voters of the entire county shall vote for the candidates from all five districts. Each candidate from each political party who receives a majority of the votes cast for candidates from his district shall be declared to be the nominee for his political party from such district.

"Sec. 3. The candidates nominated from each district shall be voted on in the general elections held beginning in the year 1968, for the election of members of the Board of Commissioners for Pender County by the qualified voters of the entire county, and the candidate from each district who shall receive the highest number of the votes cast for candidates from his district shall be declared elected to serve as a member of the Board of County Commissioners."

Sec. 3. This Act shall not become operative until it has been approved by a majority of the votes cast by the qualified voters of that county in a countywide election held at the same time and by the officials conducting the 1966 general election in Pender County. Said referendum election shall be conducted and held according to the provisions of Chapter 163 of the General Statutes. The electors qualified to vote in said election for or against the adoption of the provisions of this Act shall vote ballots on which shall be printed substantially the following:

[ ]     For nomination and election of county commissioners from the body of the county.

[ ]     For nomination and election of county commissioners by districts.

Sec. 4. All laws and clauses of laws in conflict with the provisions of this Act are hereby repealed.

Sec. 5. This Act shall be in full force and effect upon its ratification.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 27th day of April, 1965.