GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA
1995 SESSION

CHAPTER 69
HOUSE BILL 609

AN ACT TO ALLOW AN EXEMPTION OF TYRRELL COUNTY FROM THE MINIMUM NUMBER OF HOURS ITS BOARD OF ELECTIONS OFFICE MUST BE OPEN.

Whereas, Tyrrell County has a voting age population of only 2,792; and
Whereas, the National Voter Registration Act of 1993 provides that social service agencies and the DMV register voters during the entire time they are open; and
Whereas, the State's least populous county does not need the board of elections office open 12 hours per week as is required at present, and the expenditure so required is wasteful; Now, therefore,

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

Section 1.  Notwithstanding the provisions of Chapter 163 of the General Statutes, the board of elections of a county, with the approval of the State Board of Elections, may provide that the number of hours that the office of the county board of elections is open, and the minimum number of hours that the supervisor of elections is compensated, may be reduced to provide a level of service commensurate with the potential demand.
Sec. 2.  This act applies to Tyrrell County only.
Sec. 3.  This act is effective upon ratification.
In the General Assembly read three times and ratified this the 8th day of May, 1995.

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Dennis A. Wicker
President of the Senate

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Harold J. Brubaker
Speaker of the House of Representatives