GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA

EXTRA SESSION 1991

 

 

CHAPTER 9

HOUSE BILL 1

 

AN ACT TO PROVIDE FOR FURTHER ALTERATION OF THE 1992 ELECTION TIMETABLE.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

 

Section 1.  Section 2 of Chapter 1, Session Laws of the Extra Session of 1991, reads as rewritten:

"Sec. 2.  Notices of candidacy shall be filed with the appropriate board of elections no earlier than 12:00 noon on Monday, February 10, 1992, and no later than 12:00 noon on Monday, March 2, 1992, except that if a plan for districting the:

(1)       North Carolina House of Representatives is approved after Thursday, February 6, 1992, but before Saturday, February 15, 1992, notices of candidacy for the North Carolina House of Representatives shall be filed with the appropriate board of elections no earlier than 12:00 noon on Monday, February 17, 1992, and no later than 12:00 noon on Monday, March 2, 1992;

(2)       North Carolina Senate is approved after Thursday, February 6, 1992, but before Saturday, February 15, 1992, notices of candidacy for the North Carolina Senate shall be filed with the appropriate board of elections no earlier than 12:00 noon on Monday, February 17, 1992, and no later than 12:00 noon on Monday, March 2, 1992; or

(3)       United States House of Representatives is approved after Thursday, February 6, 1992, but before Saturday, February 15, 1992, notices of candidacy for the United States House of Representatives shall be filed with the appropriate board of elections no earlier than 12:00 noon on Monday, February 17, 1992, and no later than 12:00 noon on Monday, March 2, 1992."

Sec. 2.  The Executive Secretary-Director of the State Board of Elections shall prepare and distribute to the county boards of elections a Revised Primary Election Timetable - 1992, setting out the applicable filing period for candidates along with all other pertinent dates relative to the primary election timetable for primary elections as modified by this act.

Sec. 3.  This act is effective upon ratification, but shall only be enforced as provided by section 5 of the Voting Rights Act of 1965.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified this the 3rd day of February, 1992.

 

Henson P. Barnes

President Pro Tempore of the Senate

 

Daniel Blue, Jr.

Speaker of the House of Representatives