NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1963 SESSION

CHAPTER 6

SENATE BILL 21

AN ACT TO AMEND CHAPTER 160 AND CHAPTER 163 RELATING TO THE REGULATION OF ELECTIONS IN THE CITIES OF LEXINGTON AND THOMASVILLE APPLICABLE ONLY TO DAVIDSON COUNTY AND THE CITIES OF LEXINGTON AND THOMASVILLE.

The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

Section 1. The Davidson County Board of Elections is hereby authorized and empowered to conduct, upon request, all municipal elections hereinafter held within the corporate limits of the Cities of Lexington and Thomasville and in the conduct of the aforesaid municipal elections, to use the registration books of the Davidson County Board of Elections for precincts within said corporate limits and the said registration books shall be open for registration in said municipal elections and closed as provided by the general law governing municipal elections.

Sec. 2. All voters presently registered on the registration books of the Davidson County Board of Elections, unless otherwise disqualified, shall be entitled to vote in all ensuing general or special municipal elections in the Cities of Lexington and Thomasville and those persons registered while the registration books are open for ensuing municipal elections shall be entitled to vote in all primary, general and special elections held in Davidson County.

Sec. 3. It is the intent and purpose of this Act that the registration books of the City of Lexington and the City of Thomasville shall be consolidated and combined with the registration books and election records of the Davidson County Board of Elections by the adoption of the registration books of the Davidson County Board of Elections by the aforesaid municipalities to the end that only one set of registration books shall be used in municipal precincts for all ensuing municipal elections and all county-wide elections whether local, State, or National.

Sec. 4. All laws in conflict with this Act pertaining only to the County of Davidson and the City of Lexington and the City of Thomasville are hereby repealed.

Sec. 5. 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 28th day of February, 1963.