NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1975 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 286

HOUSE BILL 702

 

 

AN ACT TO ESTABLISH THE QUALIFICATIONS FOR MEMBERS OF THE STATE BOARD OF ELECTIONS.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

 

Section 1.  G.S. 163-19 is amended by adding at the end thereof the following paragraph:

"No person shall be eligible to serve as a member of the State Board of Elections who holds any elective or appointive office under the government of the United States, or of the State of North Carolina or any political subdivision thereof. No person who holds any office in a political party, or organization, or who is a candidate for nomination or election to any office, or who is a campaign manager or treasurer of any candidate in a primary or election shall be eligible to serve as a member of the State Board of Elections."

Sec. 2.  This act shall become effective July 1, 1975.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 13th day of May, 1975.