NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1961 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 706

HOUSE BILL 894

 

 

AN ACT TO AMEND CHAPTER 652, SESSION LAWS OF 1949, RELATING TO THE NOMINATION AND ELECTION OF MEMBERS OF THE CURRITUCK COUNTY BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS SO AS TO PROVIDE THAT THE DISTRICT CANDIDATES SHALL BE ELECTED BY A VOTE OF THE PEOPLE OF THE COUNTY AS A WHOLE.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

 

Section 1. Section 3 of Chapter 652, Session Laws of 1949, is hereby amended by striking out that portion of the first sentence appearing after the comma following the word "Act" in line 5 thereof, and inserting in lieu thereof the following:

"who shall be a qualified voter of the district for which he is a candidate, and the nomination shall be by the electors of Currituck County voting as a whole."

Sec. 2. The intent and purpose of this Act is to provide that in the party primaries held in Currituck County in 1962 and thereafter for nomination of county commissioners from the respective districts within the county, the candidates shall be nominated by the electors of Currituck County voting as a whole, rather than by the electors of the respective districts as presently provided. The provisions of this Act shall not be construed to conflict with the provisions of Chapter 1029, Session Laws of 1957.

Sec. 3. All laws and clauses of laws in conflict with this Act are hereby repealed.

Sec. 4. This Act shall become effective from and after its ratification.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 9th day of June, 1961.