NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1981 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 560

HOUSE BILL 1086

 

 

AN ACT TO AMEND THE ABSENTEE BALLOT DEADLINE FOR THE SECOND PRIMARY TO CONFORM TO THE DEADLINE FOR OTHER ELECTIONS SET BY CHAPTER 305, SESSION LAWS OF 1981, AND TO CONFORM ABSENTEE VOTING FOR SALES TAX AND SOIL AND WATER ELECTIONS TO G.S. 163-226 AS AMENDED BY CHAPTER 140, SESSION LAWS OF 1979.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

 

Section 1. G.S. 163-227.1, as the same appears in the 1979 Supplement to Volume 3D of the General Statutes, is amended by substituting the word "Thursday" for the word "Wednesday" in the second paragraph.

Sec. 2. G.S. 105-465 and G.S. 105-473(a) are each amended by deleting in each place the words ", except that no absentee ballots may be used".

Sec. 3. The last sentence of the third paragraph of G.S. 139-6 is repealed.

Sec. 4. This act shall become effective with respect to all elections held on and after September 1, 1981.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 12th day of June, 1981.