NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1959 SESSION

CHAPTER 906

SENATE BILL 458

AN ACT PROVIDING THE MANNER IN WHICH VOTES MAY BE CAST FOR GROUP CANDIDATES IN MUNICIPAL ELECTIONS HELD IN HALIFAX COUNTY.

The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

Section 1. That where there are group candidates for the same office in any municipal election held in Halifax County, and the names of several candidates therefor appear on the ballot grouped under the name of the office for which they are all running, the elector shall cast his or her vote for as many candidates as there are offices to be filled, and where an elector votes for any number of such group candidates fewer than the number of offices to be filled, such ballots shall not be counted for any of the group candidates for said offices. There shall be printed under the title of the offices for group candidates the number of candidates to be voted for.

Sec. 2. This Act shall apply to Halifax County only.

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 All laws and clauses of laws in conflict with the provisions of this Act are hereby repealed.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 11th day of June, 1959.