NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1959 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 1109

HOUSE BILL 1284

 

 

AN ACT REWRITING SECTION 1 OF CHAPTER 137, PUBLIC-LOCAL LAWS OF 1939 SO AS TO PROVIDE FOR THE NOMINATION OF MEMBERS OF THE PERQUIMANS COUNTY BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS BY TOWNSHIPS AND THEIR ELECTION BY THE VOTERS OF THE COUNTY AT LARGE.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

 

Section 1. That Section I of Chapter 137, Public-Local Laws of 1939 be and the same is hereby rewritten to read as follows:

"Section 1. That at the primary election to be held in the year 1960 and biennially thereafter, there shall be nominated for membership on the Board of County Commissioners for Perquimans County one candidate by the voters of each of the five townships in said county, participating in the primary of each of the recognized political parties, and should there be more than one candidate for such nomination of any of the recognized political parties from any one of the aforesaid five townships, the candidate from said township receiving the highest number of votes in his respective primary shall be declared the nominee of his party from such township for election in the general election to be held in the year 1960 and biennially thereafter. In the general election the nominees from each of the five townships shall be elected by the qualified voters of Perquimans County as a whole: Provided, that in the event there is no candidate from any one or more townships in the county, the County Executive Committee of any political party therein shall nominate the candidate of such party as the nominee to be voted upon in such general election."

Sec. 2. All laws and clauses of laws in conflict with the provisions of this Act are hereby repealed.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 17th day of June, 1959.