NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1971 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 189

HOUSE BILL 305

 

 

AN ACT TO AMEND CHAPTER 163 OF THE GENERAL STATUTES SO AS TO ESTABLISH THE SAME FILING DEADLINE FOR CANDIDATES FOR ALL OFFICES.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

 

Section 1.  G.S. 163-406(c) is amended by rewriting it to read as follows:

"(c)       Time for filing notice of candidacy: Candidates seeking party primary nomination for the following offices may file their notices of candidacy with the State Board of Elections at any time but shall do so not later than 12:00 noon, on the Monday preceding the tenth Tuesday before the primary election in which they seek to run:

Governor

Lieutenant Governor

all State executive officers

Justices of the Supreme Court, Judges of the Court of Appeals

Judges of the Superior Courts

Judges of the District Courts

United States Senators

Members of the House of Representatives of the United States

Solicitors

A candidate seeking party primary nomination for one of the following offices may file his notice of candidacy with the board of elections of the county in which he resides at any time but shall do so not later than 12:00 noon, on the Monday preceding the tenth Tuesday before the primary election in which he seeks to run:

State Senators

Members of the State House of Representatives

all county offices

all township offices"

Sec. 2.  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 13th day of April, 1971.