NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1971 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 257

SENATE BILL 42

 

 

AN ACT TO DIVIDE NORTH CAROLINA INTO ELEVEN CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICTS.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

 

Section 1.  G.S. 163-201 is hereby rewritten to read as follows:

"§ 163-201.  Congressional districts specified. — For the purpose of nominating and electing members of the House of Representatives of the Congress of the United States in 1972 and every two years thereafter, the State of North Carolina shall be divided into eleven districts as follows:

FIRST DISTRICT: Beaufort, Bertie, Camden, Carteret, Chowan, Craven, Currituck, Dare, Gates, Greene, Hertford, Hyde, Jones, Lenoir, Martin, Pamlico, Pasquotank, Perquimans, Pitt, Tyrrell and Washington.

SECOND DISTRICT: Caswell, Edgecombe, Franklin, Granville, Halifax, Nash, Northampton, Orange, Person, Vance, Warren and Wilson.

THIRD DISTRICT: Bladen, Duplin, Harnett, Johnston, Lee, Onslow, Pender, Sampson and Wayne.

FOURTH DISTRICT: Chatham, Durham, Randolph and Wake.

FIFTH DISTRICT: Alleghany, Ashe, Davidson, Forsyth, Stokes, Surry and Wilkes.

SIXTH DISTRICT: Alamance, Guilford and Rockingham.

SEVENTH DISTRICT: Brunswick, Columbus, Cumberland, Hoke, New Hanover and Robeson.

EIGHTH DISTRICT: Anson, Cabarrus, Davie, Montgomery, Moore, Richmond, Rowan, Scotland, Stanly, Union and Yadkin.

NINTH DISTRICT: Iredell, Lincoln and Mecklenburg.

TENTH DISTRICT: Alexander, Burke, Caldwell, Catawba, Cleveland, Gaston and Watauga.

ELEVENTH DISTRICT: Avery, Buncombe, Cherokee, Clay, Graham, Haywood, Henderson, Jackson, McDowell, Macon, Madison, Mitchell, Polk, Rutherford, Swain, Transylvania and Yancey."

Sec. 2.  This act shall be effective upon ratification.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 29th day of April, 1971.