NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1959 SESSION

CHAPTER 85

HOUSE BILL 140

AN ACT AMENDING G. S. 115-19 RELATING TO THE NOMINATION AND APPOINTMENT OF MEMBERS OF THE GRAHAM COUNTY BOARD OF EDUCATION AND FIXING THEIR TERMS OF OFFICE.

The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

Section 1. That G. S. 115-19 be and the same is hereby amended by adding at the end thereof the following:

"Provided that in Graham County the successors to the three members appointed for two-year terms by the 1959 General Assembly shall be nominated in the primary election to be held in 1960 for terms of two years each. One candidate so nominated shall reside in each of the three townships of said county, but shall be nominated by a county-wide vote.

"In the primary election to be held in 1962, the successors to the members of said board of education appointed by the 1959 General Assembly for four-year terms shall be nominated for terms of four years each and such members of said board of education may reside anywhere within Graham County."

Sec. 2. This Act shall apply to Graham County only.

Sec. 3. All laws and clauses of laws in conflict with the provisions of this Act are hereby repealed.

Sec. 4. 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 17th day of March, 1959.