GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA

1987 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 504

HOUSE BILL 139

 

AN ACT TO PROVIDE THAT IN PREPARATION OF THE GENERAL ELECTION BALLOT, THE STATE BOARD OF ELECTIONS MAY NOT DIVIDE THE APPELLATE DIVISION INTO MORE THAN ONE BALLOT, AND MAY NOT DIVIDE THE SUPERIOR COURT INTO MORE THAN ONE BALLOT.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

 

Section 1.  G.S. 163-140(a) is amended by adding the following at the end:

"If the State Board of Elections divides the State ballot into two or more ballots, all candidates for superior court shall appear on the same ballot except that the State Board of Elections may divide the election of superior court judges into two ballots either because of length of the ballot or to provide a separate ballot for multi-seat races but only superior court judges shall be on those ballots, and all candidates for the Appellate Division shall appear on the same ballot."

Sec. 2.  This act is effective upon ratification.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified this the 29th day of June, 1987.