NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

EXTRA SESSION 1963

 

 

CHAPTER 1

HOUSE BILL 2

 

 

AN ACT TO ESTABLISH THE SENATORIAL DISTRICTS OF THE STATE AND TO MAKE THE APPORTIONMENT OF MEMBERS OF THE SENATE.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

 

Section 1.  G.S. 120-1 is hereby amended to read as follows:

"§ 120-1.  Senators. Until another redistricting of the State and reapportionment of Senators among the respective districts so established shall be made in accordance with the Constitution and laws of North Carolina, the fifty members of the Senate shall be elected from districts constituted as follows:

"First District—Gates, Chowan, Perquimans, Pasquotank, Camden and Currituck shall elect one Senator.

"Second District—Washington, Tyrrell, Dare, Beaufort and Hyde shall elect one Senator.

"Third District—Northampton, Hertford and Bertie shall elect one Senator.

"Fourth District—Onslow shall elect one Senator.

"Fifth District—Lenoir, Craven, Pamlico, Jones, and Carteret shall elect two Senators.

"Sixth District—Pitt and Greene shall elect one Senator.

"Seventh District—Edgecombe and Martin shall elect one Senator.

"Eighth District—Warren and Halifax shall elect one Senator.

"Ninth District—Bladen, Columbus and Brunswick shall elect one Senator.

"Tenth District—Sampson, Duplin, Pender and New Hanover shall elect two Senators.

"Eleventh District—Wayne shall elect one Senator.

"Twelfth District—Nash, Wilson and Johnston shall elect two Senators.

"Thirteenth District—Granville, Vance and Franklin shall elect one Senator.

"Fourteenth District—Robeson shall elect one Senator.

"Fifteenth District—Cumberland shall elect one Senator.

"Sixteenth District—Chatham and Wake shall elect two Senators.

"Seventeenth District—Person, Orange and Durham shall elect two Senators.

"Eighteenth District—Randolph, Moore, Lee, Harnett and Hoke shall elect two Senators.

"Nineteenth District—Alamance shall elect one Senator.

"Twentieth District—Rockingham and Caswell shall elect one Senator.

"Twenty-first District—Guilford shall elect two Senators.

"Twenty-second District—Davidson, Montgomery, Richmond and Scotland shall elect two Senators.

"Twenty-third District—Forsyth shall elect two Senators.

"Twenty-fourth District—Cabarrus, Stanly, Union and Anson shall elect two Senators.

"Twenty-fifth District—Mecklenburg shall elect three Senators.

"Twenty-sixth District—Rowan shall elect one Senator.

"Twenty-seventh District—Iredell and Davie shall elect one Senator.

"Twenty-eighth District—Ashe, Alleghany, Surry and Stokes shall elect one Senator.

"Twenty-ninth District—Watauga, Wilkes, Yadkin and Avery shall elect one Senator.

"Thirtieth District—Gaston shall elect one Senator.

"Thirty-first District—Cleveland, Catawba, Alexander and Lincoln shall elect two Senators.

"Thirty-second District—Burke and Caldwell shall elect one Senator.

"Thirty-third District—Henderson, Rutherford and Polk shall elect one Senator.

"Thirty-fourth District—Madison, Yancey, Mitchell, and McDowell shall elect one Senator.

"Thirty-fifth District—Haywood, Buncombe and Transylvania shall elect two Senators.

"Thirty-sixth District—Cherokee, Graham, Clay, Swain, Jackson and Macon shall elect one Senator."

Sec. 2.  All laws and clauses of laws in conflict with this Act are hereby repealed.

Sec. 3.  This Act shall take effect upon its ratification.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 17th day of October, 1963.