NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1963 SESSION

CHAPTER 518

HOUSE BILL 696

AN ACT RELATING TO THE NOMINATION AND ELECTION OF MEMBERS OF THE BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS OF RUTHERFORD COUNTY.

The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

Section 1. Chapter 557 of the Session Laws of 1955, amending and rewriting Section 4 of Chapter 75 of the Public-Local Laws of 1933, is hereby further amended by rewriting Section 4, appearing in Section 1 of Chapter 557 of the Session Laws of 1955, to read as follows:

"Sec. 4. At the next primary or convention to be held in Rutherford County for the nomination of county officers there shall be nominated one commissioner from each of the five districts herein provided for, and those participating in said primary, both as candidates and voters, shall be restricted to the qualified voters of said districts. The candidate receiving a majority of the votes cast in said election shall be declared to be the candidate of his political party duly nominated for the general election. The candidates so nominated from the respective districts shall in the general election be voted on by all of the qualified voters of Rutherford County; provided, only one commissioner from any district shall be declared elected."

Sec. 2. All laws and clauses of laws in conflict with this Act are hereby repealed.

Sec. 3. 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 22nd day of May, 1963.