NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1965 SESSION

CHAPTER 247

HOUSE BILL 474

AN ACT TO AMEND CHAPTER 1252, SESSION LAWS OF 1949, THE SAME BEING THE CHARTER OF RED SPRINGS, SO AS TO PROVIDE FOR THE USE OF COUNTY REGISTRATION BOOKS AND THE CONDUCT OF MUNICIPAL ELECTIONS.

The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

Section 1. Chapter 1252, Session Laws of 1949, is hereby amended by adding a new Section immediately after Section 11, to read as follows:

"Sec. 11.1. Registration of Voters and Conduct of Elections. Notwithstanding any other provisions of this Charter or any other law, the governing body of the Town of Red Springs and the Robeson County Board of Elections are expressly authorized to enter into contracts and agreements, upon such terms and conditions as may be mutually agreed, for the use of the county registration books, process or records and for the use of equipment, personnel, and for the registration of voters, the holding, conducting and supervision of all municipal elections.

"In the event the governing body of the municipality requests the County Board of Elections, by resolution duly adopted, to conduct the municipal elections, it shall, on the date specified in this Charter, hold, conduct, and supervise all regular and special elections in the municipality in accordance with the provisions of law applicable to registration of voters and holding of general elections in Robeson County and all pertinent provisions of Chapter 163 of the General Statutes, except with respect to those provisions which are in conflict with this Charter respecting dates of elections, candidates for office, filing of candidates and placement of names on a ballot. Upon agreement that the county registration books shall be used in the municipal elections, then all persons duly registered in the county books, who live within the corporate limits, shall be entitled to vote in any election held in the municipality. The municipal registration books previously used by the town shall no longer be used in elections and shall be impounded by the town clerk. The county registration books for the precincts within the town shall remain in the custody of the Robeson County Board of Elections."

Sec. 2. The municipal election in the Town of Red Springs shall be held on the last Saturday in May of 1965, and thereafter, all municipal elections in the Town of Red Springs shall be held on Tuesday, following the first Monday in May, in odd-numbered years, as provided in Section 10, Chapter 1252, Session Laws of 1949.

Sec. 3. Chapter 123, Session Laws of 1965, and all other 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 14th day of April, 1965.