NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1975 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 359

HOUSE BILL 847

 

AN ACT TO PROVIDE FOR THE NOMINATION AND ELECTION OF THE BOARD OF EDUCATION OF UNION COUNTY.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

 

Section 1. The Board of Education of Union County shall consist of seven members who shall be nominated and elected in a partisan primary and election as herein provided. The primary and election shall be held and conducted in accordance with the general laws governing primaries and elections for county officers, except as otherwise provided herein.

Incumbent members of the present board of education shall be permitted to serve out the terms for which they were elected. In the event of a vacancy caused by other than expiration of the term, the vacancy shall be filled in accord with the provisions of the first sentence of Section 4 herein.

As the terms of the present members expire, beginning with the primary and election to be held in 1976, and every two years thereafter, members of the board of education shall be elected for terms of four years.

Sec. 2. Those persons elected to the board of education shall qualify by taking the oath of office on or before the first Monday in December after their election, and their term shall begin on such date, and they shall serve until their successors have been elected and qualified.

Sec. 3. Vacancies in the membership of the board of education selected pursuant to this act occurring for any reason shall be filled immediately by the remaining members of the board of education. The person appointed to fill the vacancy shall serve until the next election for members of the board of education, at which time a person shall be elected to fill the unexpired term. However, if a vacancy occurs in the last 26 months of a member's term, the appointment shall be for the unexpired term. If a vacancy which is to be filled only until the next election occurs after the closing of the filing period for the primary next succeeding that election, and no one has filed for the seat, the vacancy shall be filled immediately by the remaining members of the board of education.

Sec. 4.  It is the intent of this act that the terms of the present members of the board of education shall not be reduced, but as their terms expire, their successors shall be elected under the terms of this act for terms of four years.

Sec. 5. All laws and clauses of laws inconsistent with this act are hereby repealed.

Sec. 6. This act shall become effective upon ratification.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 21st day of May, 1975.