NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1963 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 222

SENATE BILL 221

 

 

AN ACT TO AMEND SENATE BILL 161, SESSION 1963, AND TO VALIDATE ACTS OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF LUMBERTON IN CONNECTION WITH NEW REGISTRATION OF VOTERS.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

 

Section 1. Senate Bill 161, enacted by the 1963 Session of the General Assembly, and ratified on the 29th day of March, 1963, is hereby amended by striking out the second sentence of Article III, Section 4, subparagraph (4), which sentence reads as follows:

"When a new registration is ordered, each precinct to register voters from 9 o'clock a.m. until sunset on the fourth, third and second Saturdays before the election", and by inserting in lieu thereof the following sentence:

"When a new registration is ordered, each precinct or ward registrar shall be at the voting place in the precinct to register voters from 9:00 o'clock A. M. until sunset on the fourth, third and second Saturdays before the election."

Sec. 2. The action of the City Council of Lumberton in publishing a notice of new registration of voters in the City of Lumberton in a newspaper published in the City of Lumberton on March 25, 1963, on April 1, 1963, and on April 8, 1963, shall be, in all respects, deemed to be in compliance with the provisions of Article III, Section 4, subparagraph (3a) of Senate Bill 161, Session 1963, ratified on the 29th day of March, 1963, and no further notice shall be required to be published by the City Council of Lumberton of such new registration, and the registration conducted pursuant to the notices required hereby is hereby validated.

Sec. 3. All laws and clauses of laws in conflict with this Act are hereby repealed.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 16th day of April, 1963.