NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1979 SESSION

CHAPTER 331

SENATE BILL 456

AN ACT TO AMEND CHAPTER 633 OF THE 1977 SESSION LAWS OF NORTH CAROLINA RELATING TO GASTON COUNTY SO THAT TEN-MONTH EMPLOYEES MAY BE PAID ON OR BEFORE THE FIFTEENTH DAY OF EACH MONTH AND SO THAT THE FILING PERIOD FOR CANDIDATES WOULD CLOSE PRIOR TO THE AVAILABILITY OF ABSENTEE BALLOTS.

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

Section 1.  Chapter 633 of the 1977 Session Laws is amended as follows:

(1)       by rewriting the second sentence of Section 4 to read as follows:

"Each candidate shall file a notice of candidacy with the board of elections indicating whether he is running as a member at large or from a particular township at any time after 12:00 noon on the Friday preceding the sixteenth Saturday and before 12:00 noon on the Friday preceding the twelfth Saturday before the general election."; and

(2)       by adding the following new section thereto:

"Sec. 23. Notwithstanding the provisions of Section 115-157(1) and (2) of the General Statutes of North Carolina, the Gaston County Board of Education shall pay employees who are employed on a ten-month basis on or before the fifteenth day of each month during which they are employed."

Sec. 2. This act is effective upon ratification.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 10th day of April, 1979.