NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1971 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 1076

HOUSE BILL 1422

 

 

AN ACT CONFORMING CHAPTER 160A OF THE GENERAL STATUTES WITH THE UNIFORM MUNICIPAL ELECTIONS LAW, AND CLARIFYING THE STATUS OF EXISTING MUNICIPAL LAND USE ORDINANCES UNDER CHAPTER 160A.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

 

Section 1.  Paragraph (7) of G.S. 160A-101, as enacted by Chapter 698 of the Session Laws of 1971 (House Bill 153), is rewritten to read as follows:

"(7)      Elections:

a.         Partisan. Municipal primaries and elections shall be conducted on a partisan basis as provided in G.S. 163-291.

b.         Nonpartisan plurality. Municipal elections shall be conducted as provided in G.S. 163-292.

c.         Nonpartisan election and runoff election. Municipal elections and runoff elections shall be conducted as provided in G.S. 163-293.

d.         Nonpartisan primary and election. Municipal primaries and elections shall be conducted as provided in G.S. 163-294."

Sec. 2.  Article 6 of Chapter 160A of the General Statutes, comprising G.S. 160A- 116 through G.S. 160A-127, as enacted by Chapter 698 of the Session Laws of 1971 (House Bill 153), is repealed.

Sec. 3.  G.S. 160A-360, as enacted by Chapter 698 of the Session Laws of 1971 (House Bill 153), is amended by adding a new subsection thereto as follows:

"(j)       Notwithstanding the foregoing provisions of this section, and subject to the provisions of subsection (I) of this section, all city ordinances adopted before January 1, 1972, under authority of laws revised and reenacted in this Article, or any charter or local act concerning the same subject matter, shall continue in full force and effect within the territorial jurisdiction of the city as it existed on December 31, 1971, until the city defines the boundaries of its extraterritorial jurisdiction pursuant to this section, or July 1, 1972, whichever event first occurs."

Sec. 4.  This act shall become effective upon its ratification.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 21st day of July, 1971.