GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA
1997 SESSION
S.L. 1997-217
AN ACT TO DESIGNATE NINETEEN PRECINCTS IN AVERY COUNTY.
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
Section 1. Notwithstanding the provisions of G.S.163-128, 163-132.5C, or 163-132.3 or any action by the county or State boards of elections, the voting precincts of Avery County shall be the 19 precincts that were in existence on January 1, 1995, provided that Avery County reports in 1997 to the United States Bureau of the Census in the Boundary and Annexation Survey that the county has 19 townships which are coterminous with the 19 precincts that were in existence on January 1, 1995.
Section 2. This act shall become effective when Avery County reports in 1997 to the United States Bureau of the Census in the Boundary and Annexation Survey that the county has 19 townships which are coterminous with the 19 precincts that were in existence on January 1, 1995. If at any subsequent time Avery County reports a different set of township lines to the United States Bureau of the Census in the Boundary and Annexation Survey, then at that time the provisions of Section 1 of this act shall expire. For purposes of this act, the Chair of the Avery County Board of Commissioners or the Avery County Manager is authorized to make reports for the county to the United States Bureau of the Census in the Boundary and Annexation Survey.
In the General Assembly read three times and ratified this the 23rd day of June, 1997.
s/ Dennis A. Wicker
President of the Senate
s/ Harold J. Brubaker
Speaker of the House of Representatives