NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

EXTRA SESSION 1966

 

 

CHAPTER 7

SENATE BILL 4

 

 

AN ACT TO ESTABLISH CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICTS.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

 

Section 1.  G. S. 163-103 is rewritten to read as follows:

"163-103.  Congressional Districts Specified. For the purpose of nominating and electing members of the House of Representatives of the United States Congress in 1966 and every two years thereafter, there are established the following congressional districts, from each of which one representative shall be elected:

District 1 shall consist of Beaufort, Bertie, Camden, Chowan, Craven, Currituck, Dare, Gates, Hertford, Hyde, Jones, Martin, Northampton, Pamlico, Pasquotank, Perquimans, Pitt, Tyrrell, and Washington Counties.

District 2 shall consist of Edgecombe, Franklin, Granville, Greene, Halifax, Johnston, Lenoir, Vance, Warren, and Wilson Counties.

District 3 shall consist of Carteret, Duplin, Harnett, Lee, Onslow, Pender, Sampson, and Wayne Counties.

District 4 shall consist of Chatham, Montgomery, Moore, Nash, Orange, Randolph, and Wake Counties.

District 5 shall consist of Caswell, Durham, Forsyth, Person, Rockingham, and Stokes Counties.

District 6 shall consist of Alamance, Davidson, and Guilford Counties.

District 7 shall consist of Bladen, Brunswick, Columbus, Cumberland, Hoke, New Hanover, Robeson and Scotland Counties.

District 8 shall consist of Anson, Lincoln, Mecklenburg, Richmond, and Union Counties.

District 9 shall consist of Alleghany, Ashe, Cabarrus, Caldwell, Davie, Rowan, Stanly, Surry, Watauga, Wilkes, and Yadkin Counties.

District 10 shall consist of Alexander, Avery, Burke, Catawba, Cleveland, Gaston, and Iredell Counties.

District 11 shall consist of Buncombe, Cherokee, Clay, Graham, Haywood, Henderson, Jackson, McDowell, Macon, Madison, Mitchell, Polk, Rutherford, Swain, Transylvania, and Yancey Counties."

Sec. 2.  If any provision of this Act or the application thereof to any person or circumstances is held invalid, such invalidity shall not affect other provisions or applications of the Act which can be given effect without the invalid provision or application, and to this end the provisions of this Act are declared to be severable.

Sec. 3.  All laws and clauses of laws in conflict with this Act are repealed, except that G.S. 163-103 as that Section read immediately prior to the ratification of this Act shall remain in force until November 7, 1966, for the sole purpose of governing the filling of any vacancy occurring in the term of office which ends in January 1967.

Sec. 4.  This Act shall take effect on February 15, 1966.

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