NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1963 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 188

SENATE BILL 241

 

 

AN ACT TO AMEND CHAPTER 716, SESSION LAWS OF 1947, AND CHAPTER 665, SESSION LAWS OF 1955, RELATING TO THE NOMINATION AND ELECTION OF THE MEMBERS OF THE CONCORD CITY BOARD OF EDUCATION.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

Section 1. Section 3 of Chapter 716, Session Laws of 1947, is hereby rewritten to read as follows:

"Sec. 3. At the election next ensuing for election of the Aldermen and Mayor for the City of Concord, and quadrennially thereafter, there shall be elected at large by the qualified voters of the City of Concord the members of the Concord City Board of Education, each of whom shall hold office for a term of four (4) years or until his successor is duly elected and qualified. Said board membership shall consist of the number equal to the number of wards in the City of Concord at the time of the nomination of said members plus one additional member who shall be designated as the member-at-large. Each member, except said member-at-large, shall represent the ward from which he was elected."

Sec. 2. Section 1 of Chapter 665, Session Laws of 1955, is hereby amended by striking out the words: "and also one graded school commissioner, who shall be elected at large and by the qualified voters of the city, and in each of said wards there shall be nominated separately of and by the qualified voters therein one graded school commissioner for each ward." immediately following the semicolon in line 12 and immediately preceding the word "All" in line 16 of said Section, and substituting in lieu thereof the words "and also the members of the Concord City Board of Education, one of whom shall be nominated at large and one from each of the wards of the City of Concord, by all of the qualified voters of said city who participate in said party primary."

Sec. 3. All laws and clauses of laws in conflict with this Act are hereby repealed, it being the intent and purpose of this Act that one member of the Concord City Board of Education shall be elected from each ward and one shall be elected at large, but that both in the primary and general elections all nominees shall be named and all members shall be elected by the qualified voters of the city at large voting in such elections.

Sec. 4. 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 10th day of April, 1963.