NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1969 SESSION

CHAPTER 232

HOUSE BILL 424

AN ACT TO AMEND THE CHARTER OF THE CITY OF HICKORY TO PROVIDE FOR THE APPOINTMENT OF A SPECIAL REGISTRATION COMMISSIONER FOR CITY ELECTIONS.

The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

Section 1. Section 2.32 of the Charter of the City of Hickory, as set forth in Chapter 323 of the Session Laws of 1961, is hereby amended by adding a new subsection (f) after subsection (e) as follows:

"(f)      In addition to the registration officials and procedures herein provided, the city council may appoint the city clerk or some other city employee to serve as a special registration commissioner. Such commissioner, after taking the oath required for registrars by subsection (b) of Section 2.31 of this subchapter, shall be authorized and empowered to register any qualified voter who applies at the office of the City Manager during business hours at any time of the year except for the period between the closing of the registration books as required by subsection (c) hereof and the date of the municipal election. The commissioner shall from time to time and not later than the closing of the registration books prior to election deliver a list of those persons registered by him in each ward to the registrars of the several wards and each registrar shall insert the name of the voters so registered in his ward on the regular registration book. The special registration commissioner shall receive for his services as special registration commissioner such compensation as may be fixed by the city council."

Sec. 2. All laws and clauses of laws in conflict with this Act are hereby repealed.

Sec. 3. This Act shall become effective July 1, 1969.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 16th day of April, 1969.