GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA

1983 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 707

SENATE BILL 157

 

AN ACT TO AUTHORIZE HIGH SCHOOL EMPLOYEES DESIGNATED BY THE SCHOOL BOARD AND APPOINTED BY THE COUNTY BOARD OF ELECTIONS TO REGISTER VOTERS.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

 

Section 1.  G.S. 163-80(a) is amended by adding a new subdivision as follows:

"(7)      Public high school employees appointed under this subdivision. A local board of education may, but is not required to, designate high school employees to be appointed by the county board of elections as special high school registration commissioners. Only employees who volunteer for this duty, and who are acceptable to the county board of elections, may be designated by boards of education. A special high school registration commissioner may register voters only while on duty as a high school employee and only at times and under arrangements approved by the local school board of education. A person appointed under this subdivision shall take the oath prescribed in G.S. 163-41(b)."

Sec. 2.  This act shall become effective October 1, 1983.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 8th day of July, 1983.