AN ACT to provide that filling of vacancies in the offices of register of deeds, sheriff, and county commissioner in beaufort county shall be in accordance with general law.

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

SECTION 1.  S.L. 1997‑248 is repealed.
SECTION 2.  This act is effective when it becomes law.
In the General Assembly read three times and ratified this the 11th day of August, 2005.

	s/	 Beverly E. Perdue
	 President of the Senate

	s/	 James B. Black
	 Speaker of the House of Representatives