NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1979 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 806

HOUSE BILL 1325

 

 

AN ACT TO PERMIT ROTATION OF CANDIDATE NAMES ON MUNICIPAL PRIMARY AND ELECTION BALLOTS.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

 

Section 1.  G.S. 163-299(c) is amended by changing the period at the end to a comma and by adding immediately after such comma the following:

"unless the municipal governing body has adopted a resolution no later than 60 days prior to a primary or election requesting that candidates' names be rotated on ballots. In the event such a resolution has been adopted, then the board of elections responsible for printing the ballots shall have them printed so that the name of each candidate shall, as far as practicable, occupy alternate positions on the ballot; to that end the name of each candidate shall occupy with reference to the name of every other candidate for the same office, first position, second position and every other position, if any, upon an equal number of ballots, and the ballots shall be distributed among the precinct voting places impartially and without discrimination."

Sec. 2.  This act is effective upon ratification.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 6th day of June, 1979.