GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA
SESSION 2001
H	1
HOUSE BILL 1192

 
 
Short Title:	Poll Closing Times.	()	
Sponsors:	Representatives Blue; and Wainwright.	
Referred to:	Election Law and Campaign Finance Reform.	
April 12, 2001

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT to standardize poll closing times.

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
SECTION 1.  G.S. 163‑2 reads as rewritten:
"§ 163‑2.  Hours of primaries and elections.
In all primaries, general elections, special elections, and referenda held in this State, including those held in and for municipalities and special districts, the polls shall be open at 6:30 A.M., and shall be closed at 7:30 P.M.: Provided, however, that at any polling place where malfunctions in voting equipment have prevented voters at that polling place from voting, the county board of elections, with the approval of the State Board of Elections, may extend the time at which the polls close in that precinct by the length of time that voters were prevented from voting, but not past 9:30 P.M."
SECTION 2.  This act applies with respect to any primary or election conducted on or after January 1, 2002.