NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

EXTRA SESSION 1966

 

 

CHAPTER 6

HOUSE BILL 12

 

 

AN ACT TO APPORTION THE NORTH CAROLINA HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES IN THE EVENT THE UNITED STATES CONSTITUTION IS AMENDED TO PERMIT REPRESENTATION OTHER THAN BY POPULATION IN ONE HOUSE OF A BICAMERAL LEGISLATURE.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

 

Section 1.  In the event the Constitution of the United States is amended to permit representation in one house of bicameral legislatures of the several states on some basis other than population, the membership of the North Carolina House of Representatives shall automatically be and the same is re-established as provided in G.S. 120-2, as the same appears in the 1964 Replacement Volume 3B of the General Statutes of North Carolina, when approved by the voters of the State if approval is required by such amendment, and the members shall be elected at the next primary and general election held more than ten months immediately following the adoption of the constitutional amendment, and biennially thereafter, as provided in Chapter 163-1964 Replacement Volume 3D of the General Statutes of North Carolina.

Sec. 2.  Should such amendment to the United States Constitution re- quire approval by the voters of a state of any plan placing one house of a bicameral legislature on other than population before the same shall become effective then the Governor of North Carolina shall forthwith call an election and submit the re-establishment of the North Carolina House of Representatives as the same appears in the 1964 Replacement Volume 3B of the General Statutes of North Carolina to the voters for approval or disapproval.

Sec. 3.  All laws and clauses of laws in conflict of this Act are hereby repealed.

Sec. 4.  This Act shall be in full force and effect from and after its ratification provided, however, nothing contained herein shall affect the validity of any North Carolina House of Representatives until members have been elected for such re-established North Carolina House of Representatives and take such office.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 14th day of January, 1966.