NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY
1971 SESSION
CHAPTER 189
HOUSE BILL 305
AN ACT TO AMEND CHAPTER 163 OF THE GENERAL STATUTES SO AS TO ESTABLISH THE SAME FILING DEADLINE FOR CANDIDATES FOR ALL OFFICES.
The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:
Section 1. G.S. 163-406(c) is amended by rewriting it to read as follows:
"(c) Time for filing notice of candidacy: Candidates seeking party primary nomination for the following offices may file their notices of candidacy with the State Board of Elections at any time but shall do so not later than 12:00 noon, on the Monday preceding the tenth Tuesday before the primary election in which they seek to run:
Governor
Lieutenant Governor
all State executive officers
Justices of the Supreme Court, Judges of the Court of Appeals
Judges of the Superior Courts
Judges of the District Courts
United States Senators
Members of the House of Representatives of the United States
Solicitors
A candidate seeking party primary nomination for one of the following offices may file his notice of candidacy with the board of elections of the county in which he resides at any time but shall do so not later than 12:00 noon, on the Monday preceding the tenth Tuesday before the primary election in which he seeks to run:
State Senators
Members of the State House of Representatives
all county offices
all township offices"
Sec. 2. 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 13th day of April, 1971.