NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1965 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 967

HOUSE BILL 992

 

 

AN ACT TO INCREASE THE MEMBERSHIP OF THE STOKES COUNTY BOARD OF EDUCATION TO FIVE MEMBERS, PROVIDE FOR THE NOMINATION OF SAID MEMBERS AND FOR STAGGERED TERMS OF OFFICE.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

Section 1. The three present members of the Stokes County Board of Education shall continue in office until the expiration of the terms for which they were elected or appointed.

Sec. 2. At the primary election to be held for the nomination of county officers in the year of 1966, each political party shall nominate three candidates for membership on said Stokes County Board of Education. The two candidates of each party receiving the highest number of votes shall be deemed to be nominated for four-year terms. The candidate of each party receiving the third highest number of votes shall be deemed to have been nominated for a two-year term. At the primary election to be held in 1968, and quadrennially thereafter, there shall be nominated by each party two candidates to replace the members of the board whose terms then expire. At the primary election to be held in the year of 1970, and quadrennially thereafter, there shall be nominated by each political party three candidates to replace the members of the board whose terms then expire.

Sec. 3. The names of the persons so nominated shall be certified by the chairman of the Stokes County Board of Elections within ten days after their nomination is declared to the State Superintendent of Public Instruction who shall transmit the names of such persons so nominated, together with the name of the political party nominating them, to the chairman of the Committee on Education of the House of Representatives in the next regular Session of the General Assembly within ten days after it convenes, and the provisions of G. S. 115-19 shall be applicable in all respects as to the election or appointment of said candidates, as to the terms of office of said members so appointed, and as to any other requirement set forth in said Section. All vacancies in membership in the Stokes County Board of Education by death, resignation, removal or otherwise shall be filled by action of the County Executive Committee of the political party of the member causing such vacancy, as provided by G. S. 115-24. If any candidate shall die, resign, or for any reason become ineligible or disqualified between the date of his nomination and the time for the election by the General Assembly of the members of said Stokes County Board of Education, then the vacancy caused thereby may be filled by the action of the County Executive Committee of the political party of such candidate.

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

Sec. 5. This Act shall be in full force and effect on and after July 1, 1965.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 11th day of June, 1965.