NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1969 SESSION

CHAPTER 240

HOUSE BILL 519

AN ACT TO AMEND CHAPTER 112 OF THE SESSION LAWS OF 1967 RELATING TO ELECTIONS IN THE CITY OF NEWTON.

The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

Section 1. Article IV of the Charter of the City of Newton, as enacted by Chapter 112, Session Laws of 1967, is hereby amended by renumbering Section 4.4 thereof as Section 4.5, and by inserting immediately preceding such Section a new Section 4.4 to read as follows:

"Section 4.4. Use of County Registration Books. The City is hereby authorized, pursuant to agreement between its board of Aldermen and the Board of Commissioners and Board of Elections of Catawba County, to use the registration books, records, and facilities of the Catawba County Board of Elections in the registration of voters and the conduct and holding of regular and special municipal elections in the City. If such registration books and records are used by the City, then all persons residing in the City who are properly registered on the registration books of the County of Catawba shall be deemed registered to vote in regular and special municipal elections of the City, and the procedures, rules, and laws governing registration of voters in municipal elections of the City shall be governed by the general election laws pertaining to registration of voters in the general elections of Catawba County."

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 All laws and clauses of laws in conflict with this Act are hereby repealed.

Sec. 3. This Act shall be effective upon its ratification.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 17th day of April, 1969.