NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY
1959 SESSION

CHAPTER 788
HOUSE BILL 814 

AN ACT TO AUTHORIZE THE GOVERNING BODY OF THE TOWN OF WHITEVILLE TO REGULATE BY ORDINANCE THE DEADLINE FOR FILING FOR MUNICIPAL OFFICES.

The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

Section 1. In any election for municipal offices, the governing body of the Town of Whiteville may fix by ordinance a reasonable deadline before which the names of candidates for Mayor and Councilmen shall be filed with the Town Clerk and Treasurer. Names filed after such deadline may be voted on by "write‑in" ballots, but the governing body shall not be required to place such names on the official printed ballots or on the voting machine.
Sec. 2. All laws and clauses of laws in conflict with the provisions of this Act are hereby repealed.
Sec. 3. This Act shall be in full force and effect from and after July 1, 1959.
In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 9th day of June, 1959.