NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY
1961 SESSION

CHAPTER 484
HOUSE BILL 537

AN ACT TO REMOVE CHEROKEE COUNTY FROM THE OPERATION OF THE STATE‑WIDE PRIMARY LAW AS TO NOMINATING REPUBLICAN CANDIDATES FOR COUNTY OFFICES AND MEMBERS OF THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY.

The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

Section 1. The provisions of Article 19, Chapter 163 of the General Statutes of North Carolina, as amended, shall not apply to nominations of Republican candidates for county offices and members of the House of Representatives and the State Senate in Cherokee County. Instead candidates, of the Republican Party for such offices shall be nominated by conventions called and conducted under the provisions of the Plan of Organization of the Republican Party.
Sec. 2. All laws and clauses of laws in conflict with this Act are hereby repealed.
Sec. 3. This Act shall become effective upon its ratification.
In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 23rd day of May, 1961.