NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY
1963 SESSION
CHAPTER 58
HOUSE BILL 177
AN ACT TO AMEND CHAPTER 343, SESSION LAWS OF 1947, RELATING TO THE ELECTION AND TERM OF OFFICE OF THE MEMBERS OF THE BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS IN DARE COUNTY.
The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:
Section 1. Section 2 of Chapter 343, Session Laws of 1947, is rewritten to read as follows:
"Sec. 2. At the primary and general elections for county officers in Dare County, held in the year 1964, the County Commissioner for Nags Head Township (District No. 1) and the County Commissioner for Hatteras Township (District No. 5) shall be nominated and elected for a term of two years. At the primary and general election for county officers in Dare County, held in the year 1966 and quadrennially thereafter, the County Commissioner for Nags Head Township and the County Commissioner for Hatteras Township shall be nominated and elected for a term of four years.
At the primary and general elections for county officers in Dare County, held in the year 1964 and quadrennially thereafter, each of the County Commissioners from Atlantic Township (District No. 2), Croatan and East Lake Townships (District No. 3), and Kinnakeet Township (District No. 4) shall be nominated and elected for a term of four years.
There shall be one candidate nominated and elected from each of the Districts and each of the candidates shall be a qualified voter in the district from which he is a candidate. The candidate shall be voted on by the qualified voters of Dare County as a whole, and the candidate from each district of each political party receiving the highest number of votes cast by the County as a whole shall be declared the nominee of his respective political party for the district in which he is qualified."
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 All laws and clauses of laws in conflict with this Act are hereby repealed.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 upon its ratification.
In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 15th day of March, 1963.