NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1981 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 220

HOUSE BILL 520

 

 

AN ACT TO CLARIFY WHEN CANDIDATES ARE DECLARED NOMINATED WITHOUT A PRIMARY.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

 

Section 1. G.S. 163-110 is amended by rewriting the catch line and first sentence to read:

"§ 163-110. Candidates declared nominees without primary. - If a nominee for a single office is to be selected and only one candidate of a political party files for that office, or if nominees for two or more offices (constituting a group) are to be selected, and only the number of candidates equal to the number of the positions to be filled file for a political party for said offices, then the appropriate board of elections shall, upon the expiration of the filing period for said office, declare such persons as the nominees or nominee of that party, and the names shall not be printed on the primary ballot, but shall be printed on the general election ballot as candidate for that political party for that office."

Sec. 2. The last sentence of G.S. 163-110 is repealed.

Sec. 3. This act is effective upon ratification.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 17th day of April, 1981.