NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY
1963 SESSION

CHAPTER 934
HOUSE BILL 880

AN ACT TO AMEND G.S. 163-151 SO AS TO PERMIT A CANDIDATE TO USE NICKNAME ON PRIMARY AND GENERAL ELECTION BALLOTS.

The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

Section 1.  G.S. 163-151, as the same appears in the 1961 Cumulative Supplement to Volume 3C of the General Statutes, is hereby amended by adding at the end thereof a new proviso to read as follows:
"Provided, that a candidate may use a nickname, by which he has been commonly known in the election district, together with his legal name which shall appear on the ballots in the primary and general election in the same form as the name appears on the notice of candidacy. The nickname of any candidate placed on the ballot for any primary or general election shall appear immediately before the surname of such candidate and shall be enclosed by parenthesis. No title or appellation indicating rank, status, or position, such as, but not limited to, Doctor, Major, Professor, Director, or President, shall be placed on any ballot as the nickname of a candidate.
Sec. 2.  All laws and clauses of laws in conflict with this Act are hereby repealed.
Sec. 3.  This Act shall be in full force and effect from and after its ratification.
In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 14th day of June, 1963.