NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1969 SESSION

CHAPTER 171

HOUSE BILL 49

AN ACT TO AUTHORIZE COUNTY BOARDS OF ELECTIONS TO CONDUCT A NEW REGISTRATION OF VOTERS DURING THE YEAR 1969 PURSUANT TO INSTALLING LOOSE-LEAF REGISTRATION AS REQUIRED BY G.S. 163-65.

The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

Section 1.  There shall be conducted in those counties listed in Section 2 a new registration of all qualified voters within each said county during the period from April 1, 1969, to September 30, 1969. Such new registration shall be conducted in accordance with the provisions of Chapter 163, Section 67(a) of the General Statutes, except that the registration books, in addition to the time prescribed in Section 67(a) of Chapter 163 may be available for registration in the Office of the County Board of Elections or at some pre-announced location or locations during the week days of said period.  The cost of conducting such new registration shall be allocated by the respective Boards of County Commissioners.

Sec. 2. Counties covered under this Act: Alleghany, Ashe, Avery, Carteret, Camden, Caswell, Chatham, Cherokee, Clay, Columbus, Dare, Haywood, Macon, Polk, Rutherford, Sampson, Stokes, Watauga, Yancey.

Sec. 3. Any and all Counties ordering a new registration as authorized by this Act shall, upon determining to order such new registration, notify the State Board of Elections of the decision and publish notice as is now required by law.

Sec. 4. All laws and clauses of laws in conflict with this Act are hereby temporarily, until September 30, 1969, suspended.

Sec. 5. This Act shall be in full force and effect from date of ratification.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 3rd day of April, 1969.