NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1969 SESSION

CHAPTER 134

HOUSE BILL 310

AN ACT TO AMEND SECTION 160-25 OF THE GENERAL STATUTES OF NORTH CAROLINA.

The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

Section 1.  Section 160-25 of the General Statutes of North Carolina is hereby amended to read as follows:

"Section 160-25.  Officers elected by the people must be qualified voters. No person shall hold any elective office of any city or town unless he shall be a qualified voter therein. Residence within a city or town shall not be a qualification for or prerequisite to appointment to any non-elective office of any city or town, unless the governing body thereof shall by ordinance so require."

Sec. 2.  This Act shall not apply to any office within its purview, duly filled by election or appointment prior to the effective date of this Act, until the expiration of the current term of such office.

Sec. 3.  All laws and clauses of laws in conflict with this Act are hereby repealed.

Sec. 4.  This Act shall become effective upon ratification.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 27th day of March, 1969.