NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY
1961 SESSION

CHAPTER 827
SENATE BILL 331 

AN ACT TO AMEND CHAPTER 1316 OF THE SESSION LAWS OF 1955 AND TO PROVIDE FOR THE ESTABLISHMENT OF PRECINCTS FOR NEWLY ANNEXED PROPERTY OF THE CITY OF WILSON.

The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

Section 1. That Chapter 1316 of the 1955 Session Laws of North Carolina is hereby amended by striking out Section 2 and inserting in lieu thereof the following:
"Sec. 2. The Wilson County Board of Elections shall have the sole authority and power to create and define precincts and to fix and determine polling places within Wilson County, including the precincts within the City of Wilson for all municipal elections, including municipal general elections, municipal special elections, and municipal bond elections; provided that all precincts created in the City of Wilson for said municipal elections shall be wholly within the corporate boundaries of the City of Wilson; and provided further that the precincts created within the corporate boundaries of the City of Wilson for said municipal elections by said County Board of Elections shall be in accordance with the recommendation for the creation of such precincts by the Commissioners of the City of Wilson; and provided further that any area now in the corporate limits of the City of Wilson which has not become a part of any existing precinct created for municipal elections or which may hereafter be embraced within the corporate limits of the city shall be annexed to and become a part of the existing precinct created for municipal elections, which precinct is adjacent to such area, except when such area is adjacent to two of more such precincts which have been created in the City of Wilson for said municipal elections; then the City Commissioners shall recommend to the Board of Elections to which precinct such territory shall be assigned for municipal elections and the Board of Elections shall add such area to the existing precinct or precincts in accordance with such recommendation."
Sec. 2. All laws and clauses of laws in conflict with this Act are hereby repealed.
Sec. 3. This Act shall be in full force and effect from and after its ratification.
In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 15th day of June, 1961.