NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1961 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 1024

HOUSE BILL 1140

 

 

AN ACT TO ESTABLISH AND PROVIDE FOR THE NOMINATION AND SELECTION OF THE MEMBERS OF THE WHITEVILLE CITY BOARD OF EDUCATION.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

 

Section 1. The Board of Education of the City of Whiteville shall consist of seven (7) members and each member shall serve and hold office for a term of two years and shall be nominated and appointed as hereinafter set forth.

Sec. 2. At the next primary election to be held in the City of Whiteville for the nomination of city officials in the year of 1962, and every two years thereafter, there shall be nominated by each of the political parties in the City of Whiteville members of the Board of Education of the City of Whiteville from each of the districts described as follows:

District No. 1 shall consist of that portion of Western Prong Township which lies within the Whiteville Administrative School District, one member;

District No. 2 shall consist of Whiteville Precinct No. 1, two members;

District No. 3 shall consist of Whiteville Precinct No. 2, two members;

District No. 4 shall consist of South Whiteville, one member; and

District No. 5 shall consist of that portion of North Lees Precinct which lies within the Whiteville Administrative District, one member.

Sec. 3. Each district shall be entitled to the number of members specified in Section 2 of this Act on said Board of Education of the City of Whiteville, and in the event there are more than two candidates for any one of the seven (7) positions on the Board of Education of the City of Whiteville as herein above provided, the candidate receiving the highest number of votes shall be declared nominated; and if there is no candidate for each political party for any one of said positions, the executive committee of the political party which has no candidate shall, within thirty (30) days of the date of the primary election, nominate such candidate.

Sec. 4. The names of the persons so nominated, as provided in this Act, shall be duly certified by the Chairman of the County Board of Elections within ten (10) days after their nomination is declared by the said County Board of Elections to the Superintendent of Public Instruction of North Carolina, to be transmitted by him to the Chairman of the Committee on Education in the next General Assembly as provided by G. S. 115-19, and to be elected or appointed to membership on said board as therein provided.

Sec. 5. The nomination of the members from each district shall be participated in only by the qualified voters of such district. Any candidate for membership on said Board of Education must be a resident and a qualified voter in the district for which he stands as a candidate. It shall be the duty of the County Board of Elections of Columbus County to prepare and distribute the ballots for the candidates as herein provided and to conduct the primary for said nominations according to the general primary laws of the State.

Sec. 6. All laws and clauses of laws in conflict with this Act are hereby repealed.

Sec. 7. 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 17th day of June, 1961.