NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1981 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 850

HOUSE BILL 1222

 

AN ACT TO ALLOW THE CATAWBA COUNTY BOARD OF ELECTIONS TO ESTABLISH VOTING PRECINCTS WITHOUT REGARD TO TOWNSHIP LINES.  

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

 

Section 1. The first three sentences of G.S. 163-128(a) are deleted and the following inserted in their place:

"Each county shall be divided into a convenient number of precincts for purpose of voting. Provided, however, that upon a resolution adopted by the County Board of Elections a precinct may encompass territory from more than one township. When such a resolution has been adopted by the County Board of Elections to assign voters from more than one township to the same precinct, then the County Board of Elections shall maintain registration and voting records, consistent with the procedure prescribed by the State Board of Elections, so as to properly identify the township in which such voters reside."

Sec. 2. This act applies to Catawba County only.

Sec. 3. This act is effective upon ratification.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 7th day of July, 1981.