NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1959 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 1041

SENATE BILL 439

 

 

AN ACT TO PROVIDE FOR COUNTY-WIDE NOMINATION AND ELECTION OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS IN HALIFAX COUNTY.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

 

Section 1. Section Two of Chapter 317 of the Session Laws of 1943 is hereby rewritten to read as follows: "That the qualified electors of Halifax County shall, at the next election for county commissioners, and at each such election thereafter, elect five county commissioners from nominees selected by the qualified voters of Halifax County at large: Provided, one commissioner shall be a resident of each of the five county commissioner districts of Halifax County."

Sec. 1½. At the 1960 election for County Commissioners of Halifax County there shall be submitted to the qualified voters of Halifax County to be voted on by the qualified voters of said county two questions. The two questions to be submitted are as follows: (1) For election of county commissioners from districts but by a county-wide vote; (2) for election of county commissioners from any locality in the county and by a county-wide vote.

If the majority of qualified voters vote "For election of county commissioners from any locality in the county and by a county-wide vote", then, effective with the 1962 election, the said county commissioner districts, as referred to in Chapter 317 of the Session Laws of 1943, and the requirement that a commissioner be a resident of each of the five county commissioner districts of Halifax County, as provided above, shall be deemed abolished. If, however, a majority of the qualified voters shall vote "For election of county commissioners from districts but by a county-wide vote", then at the 1962 election for county commissioners and at all elections thereafter the provisions of Section 1 of this Act shall apply. The County Board of Elections shall cause to be printed the appropriate ballots containing the questions to be voted on by the qualified voters of Halifax County in said election.

Sec. 2. All laws and clauses of laws in conflict with the provisions of this Act are hereby repealed.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 17th day of June, 1959.