NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1961 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 764

HOUSE BILL 901

 

 

AN ACT TO PROVIDE FOR SELECTION OF MEMBERS OF THE BOARD OF EDUCATION AND MEMBERS OF THE BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS OF BERTIE COUNTY.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

 

Section 1. For the purposes hereinafter set forth in this Act, there is hereby created five districts in Bertie County, said districts to be numbered 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5, and shall comprise the following townships:

a.    District #1. Windsor Township

b.    District #2. Merry Hill and Whites Townships

c.    District #3. Colerain and Mitchell Townships

d.    District #4. Roxabel and Woodville Townships

e.    District #5. Snakebite and Indian Woods Townships.

Sec. 2. That in primaries and in general elections hereafter to be held in Bertie County, candidates for election to the board of county commissioners, and candidates for nomination to the board of education shall be qualified voters of the district in which the said candidates reside and shall be voted upon by the voters at large in the entire county in each of such elections. The candidate from each district receiving the largest number of votes for the respective board for which he is a candidate, shall be the nominee for such board in the primary, or shall be the nominee for the county board of education or the elected member of the board of county commissioners at the general election according to which of the respective boards he had been a candidate.

Sec. 3. Nothing in this Act shall be construed to alter the terms of office of the members of the Board of County Commissioners or the Board of Education of Bertie County, or to alter the present rotation of elections by which the members of the said boards hold staggered terms of office.

Sec. 4. All laws and clauses of laws in conflict with this Act are hereby repealed.

Sec. 5. 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 13th day of June, 1961.