NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1975 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 381

HOUSE BILL 1096

 

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

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

 

Section 1. The Robeson County Board of Education shall consist of nine members who shall be nominated and elected by the qualified voters residing in the county school district.  For the purpose of this act, no person residing in a city or town administrative school unit or district shall be eligible for election to the Robeson County Board of Education, or eligible to vote in said election.

Sec. 2. The terms of office of the present members shall continue until the first Monday in December, 1976, at which time their terms shall terminate, and the terms of the members elected pursuant to this act shall begin.

Sec. 3. Beginning with the regular primary and general election to be held in 1976 for county offices, nine members shall be nominated and elected.  The five candidates receiving the highest number of votes in the general election shall be elected for a term of four years.  The four candidates receiving the next highest number of votes shall be elected for a term of two years. Thereafter, as the terms of each member expires, his successor shall be elected for a term of four years.

Sec. 4. The primary and election shall be held and conducted in accordance with the general laws of North Carolina regulating primaries and elections as provided in Chapter 163 of the General Statutes.

Sec. 5. Any vacancy occurring in the membership of the board of education for any reason shall be filled for the unexpired term by a person named by the remaining members of the board.  The person appointed shall belong to the same political party as the person causing the vacancy.

Sec. 6. Members of the board of education elected pursuant to this act shall qualify as provided in G.S. 115-22.

Sec. 7. All laws and clauses of laws in conflict with this act are hereby repealed.

Sec. 8. This act shall become effective upon ratification.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 26th day of May, 1975.