GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA

1985 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 350

HOUSE BILL 415

 

AN ACT TO PROVIDE A METHOD FOR ACTIVATING VOTERS WHEN A CITY HAS NOT HELD ITS MOST RECENT TWO ELECTIONS AND THE CHARTER OF THAT CITY IS REVISED.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

 

Section 1.  Chapter 163 of the General Statutes is amended by adding a new section to read:

"§ 163-288.1A.  Activating voters when charter revised. - Whenever a city has not held the most recent two elections required by its charter or this Chapter, and the General Assembly amends the charter of that city and provides that the county board of elections shall conduct the elections of that city, voters shall be activated for the elections of that city in accordance with G.S. 163-288.1 or G.S. 163-288.2. In such a case, the county shall prepare the map required by G.S. 163- 288.1(a)."

Sec. 2.  This act is effective upon ratification.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 7th day of June, 1985.