NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1969 SESSION

CHAPTER 570

SENATE BILL 65

AN ACT TO AMEND CHAPTER 163 OF THE GENERAL STATUTES SO AS TO PERMIT VOTING PRECINCTS TO INCLUDE VOTERS FROM ONE OR MORE TOWNSHIPS.

The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

Section 1.  G.S. 163-128 is amended by deleting it in its entirety and inserting in lieu thereof the following:

"G.S. 163-128.  Election precincts and voting places established or altered. - Each County shall be divided into a convenient number of precincts for purpose of registration and voting, and there shall be at least one precinct encompassed within the territory of each township: Provided, however, that upon a resolution adopted by the County Board of Elections a precinct may encompass territory from more than one township. When such a resolution has been adopted by the County Board of Elections to assign voters from more than one township to the same precinct, then the County Board of Elections shall maintain separate registration and voting records, consistent with the procedure prescribed by the State Board of Elections, so as to properly identify the township in which such voters reside.

The County Board of Elections may adopt the present election precincts and voting places, or by resolution it may establish new ones, but the precincts and voting places fixed in each county shall remain as they now are until altered.

The County Board of Elections shall have power from time to time, by resolution, to establish, alter, discontinue, or create such new election precincts and voting places as it may deem expedient. Upon adoption of a resolution establishing, altering, or discontinuing a precinct or voting place the County Board of Elections shall give twenty (20) days' notice thereof prior to the beginning of the registration period at which it is to take effect, by advertising in some newspaper having general circulation in the county or, in lieu thereof, at the courthouse door and at three other public places in the county."

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  All laws and clauses of laws in conflict with this Act are hereby repealed.

Sec. 3.  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 22nd day of May, 1969.