19-1601


Chapter 19.--COUNTIES AND COUNTY OFFICERS


Article 16.--COUNTY SEATS

     
19-1601.   Location or removal of county seat, when; petition; order for
election.

When the county seat of any county has not been located by a vote of the
electors of the county, and county buildings have not been erected at the
county seat at a cost to the county of at least one thousand dollars, the
board of county commissioners, upon the petition of a majority of the legal
electors of the county, shall order an election for the location or removal
of such county seat.

     
History:   G.S. 1868, ch. 26, § 1; March 3; R.S. 1923, 19-1601.