NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY
1963 SESSION

CHAPTER 649
HOUSE BILL 1010

AN ACT TO AMEND THE CHARTER OF THE TOWN OF COVE CITY IN CRAVEN COUNTY SO AS TO PROVIDE FOR THE MARKING OF BALLOTS IN MUNICIPAL ELECTIONS.

The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

Section 1. Section 4 of Chapter 427, Session Laws of 1957, is hereby amended by adding at the end of the Section the following proviso:
"Provided, that in regular municipal elections where the names of several candidates appear on the ballot grouped under the office for which they are running, the elector shall cast his or her vote for as many candidates as there are offices to be filled. If the elector votes for any number of such candidates less or more than the number of offices to be filled, such ballot shall not be counted for any of the group candidates for said offices. There shall be printed under the title of the offices for group candidates the number of candidates to be voted for."
Sec. 2. All laws and clauses of laws in conflict with this Act are hereby repealed.
Sec. 3. This Act shall be in full force and effect from and after its ratification.
In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 31st day of May, 1963.