NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1973 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 1258

SENATE BILL 1461

 

AN ACT DEALING WITH THE BOARD OF EDUCATION OF THE ELKIN CITY SCHOOL ADMINISTRATIVE UNIT.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

 

Section 1.  Section 3 of Chapter 284 of the 1973 Session Laws is hereby rewritten to read as follows:

"(a)      The members of the Board of Education shall be elected on a nonpartisan plurality basis in even-numbered years on the same day that regular general elections are held. Candidates for the Board shall file for office on or before the fourteenth Monday preceding the date on which the general election shall be held and shall pay a filing fee of five dollars ($5.00). The first election under this act shall be held in November of 1974 at which time all members of the Board shall be elected. Of the three at-large members elected in 1974 from inside the corporate limits of the City of Elkin, the two receiving the highest number of votes shall serve a four-year term and the person receiving the next highest number of votes shall serve a two-year term. The person elected in 1974 from the area within the Elkin School District to the west of Interstate 77 and outside the corporate limits of the City of Elkin shall serve for a four-year term. The person elected in 1974 from the area within the Elkin School District to the east of Interstate 77 and outside the corporate limits of the City of Elkin shall serve a two-year term. Thereafter as the terms expire, successors shall be elected for terms of four years. Those persons who shall be elected to the Board must qualify by taking the oath of office on or before the first Monday in December next succeeding their election. Those persons appointed to the Board to fill a vacancy shall qualify within thirty days of notification. At the first meeting of the Board following the taking the oath of office by Board members, a Chairman shall be chosen by and from the membership of the Board. Any vacancy occurring in the membership of the Board for any reason shall be filled by a majority vote of the remaining members of the Board within thirty days after such vacancy occurs."

Sec. 2. All laws and clauses of laws in conflict with this act are hereby repealed.

Sec. 3. This act shall become effective upon ratification.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 10th day of April, 1974.