NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1977 SESSION

CHAPTER 274

HOUSE BILL 427

AN ACT TO REPEAL CHAPTER 102 OF THE SESSION LAWS OF 1971, AND TO PROVIDE FOR THE TRANSFER OF REGISTERED VOTERS SO AFFECTED.

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

Section 1.  That Chapter 102, Session Laws of 1971, be, and the same is hereby repealed.

Sec. 2. The Orange County Board of Elections is hereby authorized and directed to transfer the registration records of all persons registered with it pursuant to the provisions of the act above referred to, to the Durham County Board of Elections, and the Durham County Board of Elections is hereby authorized and directed to accept said registrations, if such person is otherwise qualified, and to permit said persons so registered to vote in any general or special election held within the Town of Chapel Hill pursuant to State law.

Sec. 3. The Town of Chapel Hill shall reimburse the Durham County Board of Elections for the actual cost involved in the conduct of such elections.

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

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 29th day of April, 1977.