NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1963 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 849

SENATE BILL 489

 

 

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

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

 

Section 1. That the Board of Education of Brunswick County shall consist of five members, to be chosen and to serve as hereinafter provided in this Act.

Sec. 2. At the time of the Primary Election to be held in Brunswick County for State and County officers in the year 1964, and each four (4) years thereafter, there shall be elected one member of the Board of Education for each of the Waccamaw and Leland school districts; at the time of the Primary Election to be held in Brunswick County for State and County officers in the year 1966 and every four (4) years thereafter, there shall be elected one member of the Board of Education for each of the Southport, Bolivia and Shallotte school districts.

Sec. 3. One candidate shall be elected from each of the above districts and candidates shall file notice of candidacy with the Board of Elections within the time allowed candidates in the Primary, which said notice shall state the district from which said candidate is filing and that he is a resident and qualified elector in said district and County. The filing fee shall be ten dollars ($10.00).

Sec. 4. The Board of Education election shall be nonpartisan and a separate ballot shall be provided with no reference to party or party affiliation and all qualified voters shall be eligible to vote. Candidates from each district shall be voted upon by the electors of the County at large.

Sec. 5. If as a result of any election, no candidate from any district receives a majority of the votes cast for candidates from that district, the candidate receiving the second highest number of votes cast for candidates from that district shall be eligible to call for a runoff as provided by law for Primary candidates.

Sec. 6. The successful candidate from each district shall be declared to be elected and his name shall be certified by the Brunswick County Board of Elections to the State Superintendent of Education. The members of the Board of Education so elected shall qualify by taking the oath of office on the first Monday in April of the year following the election and shall serve for four (4) years or until their successors are elected and qualified.

Sec. 7. Any vacancy occurring on the Brunswick County Board of Education by death, resignation, or otherwise, shall be filled by the remaining members of the Board for the remainder of the unexpired term but the person appointed to fill such vacancy must be from the same district as the person whose death, resignation or removal created the vacancy on the Board. If there is no candidate from any district, this shall constitute a vacancy which shall be filled as hereinabove provided.

Sec. 8. All laws and clauses of laws in conflict with the provisions of this Act are hereby repealed.

Sec. 9. 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 12th day of June, 1963.