NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1967 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 1063

HOUSE BILL 918

 

 

AN ACT TO PROVIDE FOR THE NUMBERING OF SEATS IN THE STATE SENATE AND HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES WITHIN MULTI-MEMBER SENATORIAL AND REPRESENTATIVE DISTRICTS AND TO CONSTITUE EACH SEAT A SEPARATE OFFICE.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

 

Section 1.  A new Section to be numbered G.S. 163-117 is added to Chapter 775 of the Session Laws of 1967 and to read as follows:

"G.S. 163-117.  Seats in State Senate and House of Representatives to be Numbered Within Senatorial and Representative Districts; Each Seat a Separate Office. In each Senatorial and Representative District entitled to elect more than one State Senator or member of the State House of Representatives the positions shall bear identifying numbers, as follows: 'Senate Seat 1', 'Senate Seat 2', etc., or 'House Seat 1', 'House Seat 2', etc. Each seat shall be considered a separate office within the terms of G.S. 163-113, 163-122, 163-137, 163-140, 163-151, 163‑169, 163-170, 163-175, 163-176, 163-177, 163-179, 163-180, 163-181, and all other provisions of law governing nomination and election. Votes cast for any candidate in a general election shall be effective only for the seat for which he has been nominated by a political party or for which he has filed his independent candidacy under G.S. 163-122."

Sec. 2.  G.S. 163-106(d), as it appears in Chapter 775 of the Session Laws of 1967, is amended by adding the following paragraph at the end thereof:

"In any primary in any Senatorial or Representative District entitled to elect more than one State Senator or member of the State House of Representatives, the positions being numbered as provided in G.S. 163-117, each candidate for nomination to the Senate or House of Representatives shall file with the appropriate county board of elections, at the time of filing notice of candidacy, a notice designating by number the seat to which he seeks nomination. Each seat shall be considered a separate office within the terms of G.S. 163-110, 163-114, and 163-115, and all other provisions of law governing nomination and election. No candidate shall be entitled to file for more than one seat. Votes cast for any candidate shall be effective only for the seat for which he has filed."

Sec. 3.  G.S. 163-109(c), as it appears in Chapter 775 of the Session Laws of 1967, is amended by inserting the following paragraph immediately preceding the last paragraph thereof:

"County boards of elections in Senatorial and Representative Districts entitled to more than one seat in the State Senate or State House of Representatives shall have ballots for membership in those bodies printed to designate by number the Senate or House seat to which each candidate seeks nomination."

Sec. 4.  The provisions of this Act shall not apply to the following House of Representatives Districts: 5, 13, 17, 19, 20, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 31, 33, 34, 35, 36, 38, 39, 40, 41, 42, and 47.

Sec. 5.  The provisions of this Act shall not apply to the following Senate Districts: 4, 8, 11, 12, 14, 18, 22, 23, 24, 26, 29, 31.

Sec. 6.  All laws and clauses of laws in conflict with this Act are hereby repealed.

Sec. 7.  This Act shall take effect upon its ratification.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 3rd day of July, 1967.