NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1967 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 1109

SENATE BILL 69

 

 

AN ACT TO DIVIDE NORTH CAROLINA INTO CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICTS.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

 

Section 1.  G.S. 163-201 is hereby rewritten to read as follows:

"§ 163-201.  Congressional Districts Specified. For the purpose of nominating and electing members of the House of Representatives of the United States Congress in 1968, and every two years thereafter, there are established 11 Congressional Districts, from each of which one representative shall be elected, composed of the following counties:

District 1: Beaufort, Bertie, Camden, Chowan, Craven, Currituck, Dare, Gates, Hertford, Hyde, Jones, Lenoir, Martin, Pamlico, Pasquotank, Perquimans, Pitt, Tyrrell, Washington.

District 2: Edgecombe, Franklin, Granville, Greene, Halifax, Nash, Northampton, Person, Vance, Warren, Wilson.

District 3: Carteret, Duplin, Harnett, Johnston, Onslow, Pender, Sampson, Wayne.

District 4: Chatham, Durham, Orange, Randolph, Wake.

District 5: Alleghany, Ashe, Davidson, Davie, Forsyth, Stokes, Surry, Yadkin.

District 6: Alamance, Caswell, Guilford, Rockingham.

District 7: Bladen, Brunswick, Columbus, Cumberland, Hoke, New Hanover, Robeson.

District 8: Anson, Cabarrus, Lee, Montgomery, Moore, Richmond, Rowan, Scotland, Stanly, Union.

District 9: Iredell, Lincoln, Mecklenburg, Wilkes.

District 10: Alexander, Avery, Burke, Caldwell, Catawba, Cleveland, Gaston, Watauga.

District 11: Buncombe, Cherokee, Clay, Graham, Haywood, Henderson, Jackson, Macon, Madison, McDowell, Mitchell, Polk, Rutherford, Swain, Transylvania, Yancey."

Sec. 2.  G.S. 163-103, as amended by Chapter 7, Extra Session Laws of 1966, shall remain in full force until January, 1969, for the sole purpose of governing the filling of any vacancy occurring in the term of office which ends in January, 1969.

Sec. 3.  All laws and clauses of laws in conflict with this Act are hereby repealed.

Sec. 4.  This Act shall be effective upon its ratification.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 4th day of July, 1967.