NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1969 SESSION

CHAPTER 1039

SENATE BILL 13

AN ACT TO AMEND G.S. 163-147 SO AS TO REGULATE ELECTIONEERING NEAR VOTING PLACES.

The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

Section 1.  G.S. 163-147, as it appears in the 1967 Cumulative Supplement to Volume 3D of the General Statutes, is hereby rewritten to read as follows:

"G.S. 163-147. Electioneering, placards, near voting place. No political banner, poster, placard, or campaign worker shall be allowed in or upon the voting place or within 500 feet thereof during the day of a primary or election, except for the purpose of voting. No person, while the polls are open at the voting place on the day of a primary or election, shall do any electioneering within the voting place or within 500 feet thereof: Provided, that a candidate may personally electioneer not closer than 50 feet of the voting place."

Sec. 2. This Act shall apply only to Cumberland, Durham, Franklin, Guilford, Warren and Vance Counties.

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 All laws and clauses of laws in conflict with this Act are hereby repealed.

Sec. 4. 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 25th day of June, 1969.