NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1961 SESSION

CHAPTER 802

HOUSE BILL 877

AN ACT TO AUTHORIZE THE BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS, IN ITS DISCRETION, TO CAUSE ELECTIONS TO BE HELD IN HATTERAS OR KENNAKEET TOWNSHIPS IN DARE COUNTY, FOR THE PURPOSE OF DETERMINING WHETHER OR NOT BEER AND/OR WINE SHOULD BE SOLD IN EITHER OF SAID TOWNSHIPS.

The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

Section 1. The Board of County Commissioners of Dare County is hereby authorized and empowered, in its discretion, to require the County Board of Elections of Dare County to hold and conduct elections in Hatteras or Kennakeet Township in Dare County for the purpose of determining whether or not beer and/or wine shall be sold in either of said townships. Upon the Board of County Commissioners of Dare County filing a written request with the Board of Elections of Dare County, it shall be the duty of the said Board of Elections of Dare County to hold and conduct an election in Hatteras or Kennakeet Township of said county for the purpose of determining whether beer and/or wine shall be sold in either of said townships or not, and said election shall be held and conducted in accordance with the notice, time and machinery provided in Article 11 of Chapter 18 of the General Statutes of North Carolina (Cumulative Supplement of 1951); that the effect of the vote in said election for and against the sale of beer and/or wine in either of said townships shall have the same result as set forth in G. S. 18-126 (Cumulative Supplement of 1951), and said election shall be applicable to either of said townships as to the result of said election and is hereby re-enacted for said purpose; that the form of the ballot shall be as is contained in G. S. 18-125 (Cumulative Supplement of 1951), and the time of calling the election, notice and other restrictions, as set forth in G. S. 18-124 (Cumulative Supplement of 1951), shall be applicable to said election except that it shall not be necessary to have any petition requesting said election, and the provisions of Subsections (a), (b) and (c) of G. S. 18-124 (Cumulative Supplement of 1951) shall not be applicable to the elections herein provided.

Sec. 2. All laws and clauses of laws in conflict with this Act are hereby repealed.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 14th day of June, 1961.