NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1969 SESSION

CHAPTER 405

HOUSE BILL 197

AN ACT TO AMEND GENERAL STATUTE 162-5 PERTAINING TO THE PROCEDURE FOR FILLING A VACANCY IN THE OFFICE OF SHERIFF.

The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

Section 1.  Amend G.S. 162-5, as it appears in Volume 3D, 1964 Replacement, of the General Statutes of North Carolina, by rewriting said Section so that the same shall hereafter read as follows:

(a)       When a vacancy occurs from any cause in the office of sheriff, the Board of County Commissioners shall fill such vacancy for the unexpired term by the appointment of a successor from a list of three (3) nominees submitted by the County Executive Committee of the political party to which the person creating the vacancy belonged.

(b)       In the interim between such vacancy in the office of sheriff and the appointment and qualification of a successor sheriff, under the provisions of subsection (a), the coroner of the county shall execute all process directed to the sheriff until the first meeting of the Board of County Commissioners next succeeding such vacancy.

Sec. 2. This Act shall apply only to Transylvania, Jackson and Swain Counties.

Sec. 3. All laws and clauses of laws in conflict with the provisions of this Act are hereby repealed.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 5th day of May, 1969.