NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1969 SESSION

CHAPTER 257

HOUSE BILL 616

AN ACT TO ALLOW PERSONS RESIDING WITHIN ANNEXED AREAS OF THE TOWN OF MAYODAN AND THE TOWN OF CLAYTON TO VOTE AND TO BE ELIGIBLE FOR OFFICE IN THE MUNICIPAL ELECTION OF 1969.

WHEREAS, certain areas have been annexed to the Town of Mayodan and the Town of Clayton effective May 1, 1969; and

WHEREAS, a Town election will be held in May, 1969; and

WHEREAS, G.S. 160-45 requires that a person reside within the Town for thirty (30) days immediately preceding an election, and G.S. 160- 25 requires that candidates for office be voters of the Town; and

WHEREAS, voters who reside in the annexed area should be permitted to vote and should be eligible to office; Now, therefore,

The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

Section 1.  Notwithstanding the provisions of G.S. 160-45, otherwise qualified voters who reside within the Town of Mayodan and the Town of Clayton on the day of the May, 1969 municipal election in each Town shall be eligible to register for and to vote in the respective Town election, and shall be eligible as candidates for any office to be filled in the respective Town.

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 All laws and clauses of laws in conflict with this Act are hereby repealed.

Sec. 3. This Act shall become effective upon ratification.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 18th day of April, 1969.