NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY
1963 SESSION

CHAPTER 605
HOUSE BILL 662

AN ACT RELATING TO THE NOMINATION OF MEMBERS OF THE BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS OF BRUNSWICK COUNTY.

The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

Section 1. In the primary election to be held in Brunswick County in 1964 and biennially thereafter, five candidates shall be selected as nominees for membership on the board of county commissioners. Not more than one candidate shall be deemed to be nominated from any one township. If there are candidates from more than five townships, those five candidates from different townships receiving the highest number of votes shall be declared the nominees; provided, however, that should any of the five candidates from different townships receiving the highest number of votes shall not have received a majority of the votes cast for candidates in his particular township, then the candidate from that township receiving the second highest number of votes for candidates from that township shall be eligible to call a second primary as provided by the general laws relating to primary elections.
Sec. 2. All laws and clauses of laws in conflict with this Act are hereby repealed.
Sec. 3. This Act shall become effective upon its ratification.
In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 29th day of May, 1963.