NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1961 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 475

HOUSE BILL 589

 

 

AN ACT TO REPEAL CHAPTER 85 OF THE SESSION LAWS OF 1959 AND TO AMEND G. S. 115-19 RELATING TO THE NOMINATION, APPOINTMENT, AND QUALIFICATIONS 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. Chapter 85 of the Session Laws of 1959 is hereby repealed.

Sec. 2. G. S. 115-19 is hereby amended by adding at the end thereof the following:

"Provided that in Graham County the successors to the two members appointed for four-year terms by the 1959 General Assembly shall be nominated in the primary election to be held in 1962 for terms of four years each. Each member so nominated shall possess a minimum of eleven completed grades of schooling and have received a high school diploma from an accredited high school; and that each member shall be nominated by a county-wide vote; and that such members of said Board of Education may reside anywhere within Graham County.

"In the primary election to be held in 1962, the successors to the members of the said Board of Education appointed by the 1961 General Assembly for a two-year term and four-year terms shall be nominated for a term of four years; and that members so nominated shall possess a minimum of eleven completed grades of schooling and have received a high school diploma from an accredited high school and that one member so nominated shall reside in each of the three townships of said county; and that each shall be nominated by the vote within the township where the member resides."

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 All laws and clauses of laws in conflict with the provisions of this Act are hereby repealed.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 23rd day of May, 1961.