NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1959 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 485

HOUSE BILL 442

 

 

AN ACT TO AMEND CHAPTER 366 OF THE PUBLIC-LOCAL AND PRIVATE LAWS OF 1939, RELATING TO ELECTIONS IN THE CITY OF CHARLOTTE.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact;

 

Section 1. Section 14 of Chapter 366 of the Public-Local and Private Laws of 1939, as amended by Section 6(d) of Chapter 590 of the Session Laws of 1945, is amended by inserting a proviso between the first and second sentences to read as follows:

"Provided, that if not more than the number of candidates for the nominations for each office have filed for such office, their names shall not appear upon the primary ballot, but they shall be declared to be the nominees for the offices for which they have filed."

Sec. 2. Section 14 of Chapter 366 of the Public-Local and Private Laws of 1939 is amended by striking out the following proviso appearing therein:

"Provided, that if any one person whose name may appear on the ballot as candidate for mayor shall receive a majority of all the votes cast for the office of mayor, the person so receiving said majority of votes shall be named as the only nominee for said office."

Sec. 3. All laws and clauses of laws in conflict with this Act are hereby repealed.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 12th day of May, 1959.