NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1961 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 63

HOUSE BILL 213

 

 

AN ACT TO AMEND CHAPTER 960 OF THE 1955 SESSION LAWS APPLYING TO THE KINGS MOUNTAIN SCHOOL BOARD.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

 

Section 1. Chapter 960 of the Session Laws of 1955 applying to the Kings Mountain School Board shall remain in force and effect since the school district has been enlarged by consolidation except as herein amended.

Sec. 2. At the municipal election in 1961 there shall be elected from the territory outside the corporate limits of the City of Kings Mountain, which formerly belonged to the Kings Mountain School District, together with all of the territory annexed to the Kings Mountain School District by consolidation, two members to the Kings Mountain School Board, one for six (6) years and one for four (4) years, the candidate receiving the highest vote shall be for six (6) years and the candidate receiving the next highest vote for four (4) years.

Sec. 3. The School Board shall remain five members, three to reside in the City of Kings Mountain and two from the territory outside the corporate limits.

Sec. 4. The City of Kings Mountain shall establish a voting place in the Bethware School District, in Parkgrace School District and in the Grover School District with the same boundaries used for the consolidation election for all voters outside of the corporate limits of Kings Mountain; that all of the voters residing in that part of the territory outside of the corporate limits of Kings Mountain which formerly belonged to the Kings Mountain School District shall vote in the Bethware District; that the City Board of Kings Mountain shall provide for a new registration for all voters outside the corporate limits for the election of the members of the School Board for the 1961 election and that said board shall supervise said election as same as heretofore.

Sec. 5. All laws and clauses of laws in conflict with this Act are hereby repealed.

Sec. 6. 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 March, 1961.