NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1979 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 800

SENATE BILL 592

 

 

AN ACT TO PROVIDE THAT IN CASE OF CONFLICTS BETWEEN NATIONAL PARTY RULES AND STATE LAW AS TO NATIONAL CONVENTION DELEGATES THE STATE PARTY EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE MAY RESOLVE THE CONFLICT.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

 

Section 1.  Existing G.S. 163-213.8 is designated as subsection (a) of that section, and a new subsection is added to read:

"(b)      In case of conflict between subsection (a) of this section and the national rules of a political party, the State executive committee of that party has the authority to resolve the conflict by adopting for that party the national rules, which shall then supercede any provision in subsection (a) of this section with which it conflicts, provided that the executive committee shall take only such action under this subsection necessary to resolve the conflict."

Sec. 2.  This act is effective upon ratification.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 6th day of June, 1979.