NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1971 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 63

SENATE BILL 125

 

AN ACT TO AMEND CHAPTER 115 OF THE PRIVATE LAWS OF NORTH CAROLINA OF THE EXTRA SESSION OF 1913 RELATING TO AMENDING THE CHARTER OF THE CITY OF CLINTON RELATING TO THE POLLING PLACE FOR CITY ELECTIONS AND REGISTRATION PROCEDURE.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

 

Section 1.  Section 20 of Chapter 115 of the Private Laws of the State of North Carolina of the Extra Session of 1913 is hereby amended to read as follows:

"Section 20. All elections shall be held at the City Hall in the City of Clinton and no person shall be entitled to vote at any election to be held in said town for municipal purposes unless he shall be an elector of the State of North Carolina and shall have resided for thirty days preceding the day of election within the corporate limits of said city."

Sec. 2.  Section 24 of Chapter 115 of the Private Laws of the State of North Carolina of the Extra Session of 1913 is hereby amended to read as follows:

"Section 24. The registrar shall, between the hours of nine o'clock a.m. and five o'clock p.m. on each day (Sunday excepted) for seven days preceding the day for closing the registration books as hereinafter provided, keep open said books for registration of any new electors residing in said town and entitled to register, whose name has never before been registered in said town or does not appear in the revised list. Such books shall be open from nine o'clock a.m. until six-thirty o'clock p.m. of each Saturday during such registration period and shall be closed for registration on the second Saturday before each election. No registration shall be allowed on the day of election, but if any person shall give satisfactory evidence to the registrar and judges of election that he has become of the age of twenty-one since the registration books were closed for registration, he shall be allowed to register and vote."

Sec. 3.  This act shall become effective upon ratification.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 9th day of March, 1971.