NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1959 SESSION

CHAPTER 193

HOUSE BILL 410

AN ACT REWRITING SECT10N 3 OF CHAPTER 187, PRIVATE LAWS OF 1933, SO AS TO REQUIRE PRIMARY ELECTIONS IN THE TOWN OF ANDREWS.

The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

Section 1. That Section 3 of Chapter 187, Private Laws of 1933 as modified by Chapter 222, Public-Local Laws of 1937, be and the same is hereby rewritten to read as follows:

"Sec. 3. That notwithstanding the provisions of Chapter 826, Session Laws of 1957, which provides that Democratic candidates for public office in Cherokee County be nominated in conventions, each political party shall be required to select its candidates for Mayor and Members of the Board of Aldermen of the Town of Andrews in primary elections as herein provided. The names of the candidates representing the various political parties shall be placed in separate columns on the municipal ballot as now provided by law for the election of county and State officers, and in all respects municipal elections in the Town of Andrews shall be held under the same rules, regulations and laws as apply to general municipal elections, except as herein modified.

"Any person desiring to become a candidate for nomination in the primary for the office of Mayor or a Member of the Board of Aldermen of the Town of Andrews shall, not later than the first Tuesday in April of each election year file with the town clerk a statement of his or her intentions and pay a filing fee of five dollars ($5.00). The primary election of each political party participating shall be conducted by the governing body of the town on the second Tuesday in April of each election year. Should no candidate of a political party participating in the primary receive a majority of the votes cast, a second primary shall be conducted on the third Tuesday in April. The general municipal election in said town shall be held on the first Tuesday after the first Monday in May, as is now provided by law."

Sec. 2. All laws and clauses of laws in conflict with the provisions of this Act are hereby repealed.

Sec. 3. This Act shall be in full force and effect from and after its ratification.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 31st day of March, 1959.