GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA
1993 SESSION
CHAPTER 73
AN ACT TO CHANGE THE CANDIDATE FILING PERIOD FOR THE GASTON COUNTY BOARD OF EDUCATION SO IT WILL CLOSE PRIOR TO THE AVAILABILITY OF ABSENTEE BALLOTS.
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
Section 1. Section 4 of Chapter 633, Session Laws of 1977, as amended by Chapter 331, Session Laws of 1979, reads as rewritten:
"Sec. 4. Ballot; notice of candidacy and residence
requirements. The names of the candidates shall be placed on a separate
ballot bearing no party designation, and no party affiliation need be indicated
at the time of filing. Each candidate shall file a notice of candidacy
with the board of elections indicating whether he is running as a member at
large or from a particular township at any time after 12:00 noon on the Friday
preceding the sixteenth eighteenth Saturday and before 12:00 noon
on the Friday preceding the twelfth fourteenth Saturday before
the general election. A candidate seeking to represent a particular township
shall be a resident and qualified voter of said township."
Sec. 2. This act is effective upon ratification.
In the General Assembly read three times and ratified this the 24th day of May, 1993.
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Dennis A. Wicker
President of the Senate
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Daniel Blue, Jr.
Speaker of the House of Representatives