NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1977 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 386

SENATE BILL 298

 

 

AN ACT TO CLARIFY REQUIREMENT OF CANDIDATE SEEKING NOMINATION BY FILING PETITION IN LIEU OF PAYING FILING FEE.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

 

Section 1.  G.S. 163-107.1(c) is amended by rewriting the second sentence as follows:

"The petition shall be signed by ten percent (10%) of the registered voters of the election area in which the office will be voted for, who are affiliated with the same political party in whose primary the candidate desires to run, or in the alternative, the petition shall be signed by no less than 200 registered voters regardless of said voter's political party affiliation, whichever requirement is greater."

Sec. 2.  This act shall become effective upon ratification.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 13th day of May, 1977.