NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1973 SESSION

CHAPTER 54

HOUSE BILL 314

AN ACT TO PROVIDE FOR FILLING VACANCIES IN THE BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS WHEN THE PERSON CAUSING THE VACANCY WAS NOT AFFILIATED WITH ANY POLITICAL PARTY.

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

Section 1.  G.S. 153-6 is amended by rewriting the second sentence of the first paragraph thereof to read as follows:

"If the county is divided into districts for election of the board, the person appointed to fill a vacancy shall be a resident of the same district as the member causing the vacancy. If the member causing the vacancy was elected as the nominee of a political party, the person appointed to fill the vacancy shall be a member of that political party."

Sec. 2.  This act becomes effective upon ratification.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 5th day of March, 1973.