NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY
1963 SESSION

CHAPTER 391
HOUSE BILL 794

AN ACT TO PROVIDE FOR THE ELECTION OF MEMBERS OF THE COUNTY BOARD OF EDUCATION IN NEW HANOVER COUNTY.

The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

Section 1. The County Board of Education for New Hanover County shall consist of six (6) members, to be elected by the voters of the county as herein provided, who shall serve for a term of four (4) years. The term of office of each member shall begin on the first Monday in April, next succeeding his election, and shall continue until a successor has been elected and qualified.
Sec. 2. Nominations for membership on the county board of education shall be made biennially, beginning with the primary election in 1964, at the same time and in the same manner as other county officers are nominated. At such primaries each political party shall nominate members of the county board of education to take the place of the members of such board whose terms next expire. The candidates of each political party, equal to the number of offices to be filled, who receive the highest number of votes in the primary shall be declared nominees of their respective parties. The names of the persons so nominated shall be placed upon the general election ballot for county offices to be voted upon at the next general election for county officers. There shall not be a second primary. Except as otherwise provided herein, the primary and general election laws of Chapter 163 of the General Statutes relating to the election of county officers shall apply.
Sec. 3. Vacancies in the membership of the board of education, for any cause, shall be filled immediately by the county executive committee of the political party of the member causing such vacancy. The person appointed shall serve for the unexpired term.
Sec. 4. Beginning July 1, 1963, the compensation of the chairman of the county board of education shall be fifty dollars ($50.00) per month, and the other members of said board shall receive forty dollars ($40.00) per month.
Sec. 5. The provisions of Article 5, Chapter 115 of the General Statutes, which are modified or which may be inconsistent with the provisions of this Act, are hereby repealed, but only to the extent such provisions of Article 5, Chapter 115, are modified or inconsistent with this Act, and only as to New Hanover County.
Sec. 6. All laws and clauses of laws in conflict with this Act are hereby repealed.
Sec. 7. 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 7th day of May, 1963.