GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA

1985 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 988

HOUSE BILL 1609

 

AN ACT RELATING TO MUNICIPAL WARDS AND PRECINCTS IN THOSE MUNICIPALITIES LOCATED IN MORE THAN ONE COUNTY.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

 

Section 1.  G.S. 163-285(1) is amended by adding the following immediately before the last sentence:  "The local Board of Elections conducting municipal elections in those municipalities located in two or more counties is not required to have more than one voting place in each municipal ward or precinct regardless of whether or not the ward or precinct is located within two or more counties."

Sec. 2.  This act applies to Nash, Edgecombe, and Wilson Counties only.

Sec. 3.  This act is effective upon ratification.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 11th day of July, 1986.