NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1959 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 395

HOUSE BILL 539

 

 

AN ACT TO AMEND G. S. 160-452 RELATING TO THE ELIGIBILITY OF VOTERS IN REFERENDUM FOR EXTENSION OF CORPORATE LIMITS OF THE TOWN OF ATLANTIC BEACH IN CARTERET COUNTY.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

Section 1. G. S. 160-452, as the same appears in Volume 3C of the General Statutes, is hereby amended by adding at the end therof the following:

"In ascertaining who are legal residents eligible to register and vote in any proposed annexation by the Town of Atlantic Beach of property located on Bogue Banks in Carteret County, the following shall be determined to be legal residents eligible to register and vote:

(a)       Persons or corporations who hold the legal title of ownership to real property situated within the proposed area to be annexed, whether they reside thereon permanently, temporarily, or not at all;

(b)       Each holder of title of ownership in a tenancy in common;

(c)       Both tenants in a tenancy by the entirety;

(d)       Corporations owning property within the proposed area to be annexed.

There shall be only one vote for each holder of legal title of property within the proposed area to be annexed, regardless of the number of tracts of land owned, whether contiguous or noncontiguous, within the affected area. Persons having only a dower or courtesy interest in said property shall not be considered a holder of legal title of ownership to property within the area herein specified."

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 All laws and clauses of laws in conflict with this Act are hereby repealed.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 28th day of April, 1959.