GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA

1985 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 927

SENATE BILL 180

 

AN ACT TO CHANGE THE DATE OF THE PRESIDENTIAL PREFERENCE PRIMARY TO THE SECOND TUESDAY IN MARCH, SO AS TO ALLOW FOR A SOUTHERN REGIONAL PRESIDENTIAL PRIMARY.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

 

Section 1.  G.S. 163-213.2 is amended by deleting "Beginning with the Tuesday after the first Monday in May, 1980, and every four years thereafter", and substituting "On the second Tuesday in March, 1988, and every four years thereafter".

Sec. 2.  Article 18A of Chapter 163 of the General Statutes is amended by adding a new section to read:

"§ 163-213.11.  Costs of presidential preference primary. - The State Board of Elections shall reimburse the county boards of elections for their reasonable costs in conducting the Presidential Preference Primary, in accordance with rules adopted by the State Board of Elections."

Sec. 3.  This act is effective upon ratification.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 8th day of July, 1986.