NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1981 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 152

SENATE BILL 239

 

 

AN ACT TO AUTHORIZE THE COUNTY BOARD OF ELECTIONS TO SET THE TIME AND DATE FOR RETURN OF REGISTRATION AND POLLBOOKS BY PRECINCT ELECTION OFFICIALS.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

 

Section 1. G.S. 163-174, as the same appears in Volume 3D of the General Statutes is rewritten to read:

"§ 163-174. Registration and pollbooks to be returned to chairman of county board of elections. - On the day preceding the county canvass or on the day of the county canvass, following each primary and election, as may be directed by the chairman of the county board of elections, the registrar (or judge appointed to bring in the precinct returns) shall deliver the precinct registration book or records and the pollbook to the chairman of the county board of elections at the time directed by the chairman."

Sec. 2. This act is effective upon ratification.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 31st day of March, 1981.