NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1959 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 292

HOUSE BILL 503

 

 

AN ACT PROVIDING FOR A REFERENDUM ELECTION IN THE WILSON CITY ADMINISTRATIVE SCHOOL UNIT UPON THE QUESTION WHETHER THE WILSON CITY BOARD OF EDUCATION SHALL BE ELECTED BY THE QUALIFIED VOTERS OF SAID ADMINISTRATIVE UNIT OR WHETHER THEY SHALL BE APPOINTED BY THE GOVERNING BODY OF THE CITY OF WILSON, AS AT PRESENT.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

 

Section 1. The Wilson County Board of Elections is hereby authorized, empowered and directed to call and conduct a special election in the Wilson City Administrative School Unit on the 5th day of May, 1959. At said special election the following question shall be submitted to the qualified voters of said City Administrative School Unit:

"Shall the Wilson City Board of Education be elected by the qualified voters of the Wilson City Administrative School Unit?"

The ballots shall be so arranged that those in favor of the election of the members of said board of education by the qualified voters of the Wilson City Administrative School Unit will vote "Yes", and those favoring the appointment of the members of said board of education by the governing body of the City of Wilson will vote "No".

Sec. 2. The notice of said special election shall be given by publication once a week for three (3) consecutive weeks in some newspaper published in the City of Wilson and having a general circulation throughout the Wilson City Administrative School Unit. The first publication of such notice shall be made not less than twenty-one (21) days before the election. Said election shall be conducted under the State-wide election law as modified by the loose leaf registration system in effect in Wilson County. The costs of said special election shall be paid by Wilson County.

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 All laws and clauses of laws in conflict with the provisions of this Act are hereby repealed.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 14th day of April, 1959.