GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA
1987 SESSION
CHAPTER 192
AN ACT RELATING TO THE APPOINTMENT OF MEMBERS OF THE LEXINGTON CITY BOARD OF EDUCATION.
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
Section 1. Section 2 of Chapter 26 of the Private Laws of 1935, as amended by Chapter 700 of the Session Laws of 1943 and by Chapter 56 of the Session Laws of 1949 and by Chapter 342 of the Session Laws of 1957 and by Chapter 892 of the Session Laws of 1973, is further rewritten to read:
"Sec. 2. The Lexington City Board of Education shall be composed of nine members. Eight of the members shall be appointed by the City Council of the City of Lexington. The City Council shall appoint one member to the Board of Education from each of the six wards of the City of Lexington and two members from the territory of the Lexington City School Administrative Unit at large, each of whom shall serve for the term appointed or until their successors are appointed and qualified. One of the members of the Board of Education must reside within the jurisdictional area of the Lexington City School Administrative Unit and must reside outside of the corporate limits of the City of Lexington as same may exist from time to time. The member residing outside of the corporate limits of the City of Lexington and within the limits of the Lexington City School Administrative Unit shall be appointed by the Board of County Commissioners of Davidson County. If a Board of County Commissioners shall fail to make this appointment within 60 days after receiving a resolution from the City Council requesting that it be made, the City Council may then make this appointment. All members of the Board of Education shall be appointed for three-year terms. The terms of the present members of Lexington City Board of Education which have not expired will continue for the duration of said terms except where there are two members who, because of changes in the boundaries of the wards of the City of Lexington reside in the same ward, and in such case, the Lexington City Council shall determine which members shall serve the balance of the term from said ward. The appointments of new member of the Lexington City Board of Education subsequent to the effective date shall be made for initial terms of such length that the terms of three of the members shall expire each year and the Lexington City Council shall specify terms for each new appointee. Following the initial terms, all appointees shall serve for three-year terms. No member of the Board of Education may serve for more than two consecutive full terms without an intervening period of three years. All vacancies occurring on said Board shall be filled for the unexpired term by the City Council if the vacancy be one for a member residing within the corporate limits of the City of Lexington, and if the member be residing outside the corporate limits of the City of Lexington, then the vacancy shall be appointed by the Board of County Commissioners of Davidson County provided for hereinabove."
Sec. 2. This act is effective upon ratification.
In the General Assembly read three times and ratified this the 15th day of May, 1987.