GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA

1985 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 387

SENATE BILL 471

 

AN ACT TO ALLOW FOR APPOINTMENT OF ADDITIONAL REGISTRATION COMMISSIONERS.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

 

Section 1.  The first paragraph of G.S. 163-41(b) is rewritten to read:

"In each county the county board of elections shall appoint as special registration commissioners the persons required by the next paragraph of this subsection, and may appoint additional persons as special registration commissioners. Special registration commissioners shall serve a term to expire on the date on which registrars and judges are appointed pursuant to subsection (a) of this subsection, and may be removed with cause.

In each county, the county chairman of each of the two political parties having the greatest voter registration in the State may each, from time until the maximum number of special registration commissioners allowed by this sentence are appointed, recommend voters who are eligible and who are residents of the county for appointment as special registration commissioners in a number not to exceed:

(1)       one per 2,500 (or major fraction) residents of the county according to the most recent decennial federal census; or

(2)       five, whichever is greater, but in no case greater than 100. If such recommendations are received by the county board of elections at least seven days prior to the next meeting of the county board of elections, the county board of elections shall at that meeting appoint as special registration commissioners the qualified persons on each list. The county board of elections shall meet within 45 days of receiving such nominations."

Sec. 1.1.  G.S. 163-41(b1) is repealed.

Sec. 1.2.  The next to the last paragraph of G.S. 163- 41(b), beginning "In all counties" is repealed.

Sec. 2.  This act is effective upon ratification.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 13th day of June, 1985.