NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY
1977 SESSION

CHAPTER 249
HOUSE BILL 623

AN ACT TO AMEND CHAPTER 657 OF THE 1975 SESSION LAWS TO PROVIDE FOR THE ELECTION AND RUNOFF ELECTION METHOD OF ELECTION AND TO PERMIT THE USE OF ABSENTEE BALLOTS IN ELECTIONS FOR THE DURHAM COUNTY BOARD OF EDUCATION.

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

Section 1.  The last sentence of Section 2 of Chapter 657 of the 1975 Session Laws is hereby rewritten to read as follows:
"The elections for the Durham County Board of Education shall be nonpartisan and the election and runoff election method shall be used with the results determined as provided in G.S. 163-293, and absentee ballots shall be permitted. Except as otherwise permitted herein, the elections shall be conducted in accordance with the applicable provisions of Chapter 163 of the General Statutes relating to elections for county offices."
Sec. 2. Except as hereby amended, all provisions of Chapter 657 of the 1975 Session Laws shall remain in effect.
Sec. 3. This act shall become effective upon ratification.
In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 25th day of April, 1977.