NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1963 SESSION

CHAPTER 850

SENATE BILL 543

AN ACT TO REPEAL CHAPTERS 116 AND 120, SESSION LAWS OF 1961, RELATING TO DISTRICTS AND ELECTION OF MEMBERS OF THE PERSON COUNTY BOARD OF EDUCATION, TO FIX AT FIVE THE NUMBER OF MEMBERS OF THE SAID BOARD OF EDUCATION, AND TO PROVIDE FOR STAGGERED TERMS.

The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

Section 1. Chapter 116, Session Laws of 1961, and Chapter 120, Session Laws of 1961, are hereby repealed.

Sec. 2. From and after the ratification of this Act, the Board of Education of Person County shall consist of five (5) members.

Sec. 3. In the primary election to be held in Person County in 1964, and biennially thereafter, there shall be nominated by each political party in the party primaries at the same time and in the same general manner as that in which other county officers are nominated five (5) candidates for nomination as members of the Board of Education of Person County. The names of the persons so nominated by each political party shall be placed on the official county ballots of Person County, and shall be voted upon by the qualified voters of the county at large in the general election of 1964, and biennially thereafter.

Sec. 4. The two (2) members of the Board of Education of Person County elected at the general election in 1964, who receive the highest number of votes of those elected to said Board, shall be declared elected for terms of four (4) years each, and the other three (3) members of the said Board elected at the general election in 1964 shall be declared elected for terms of two (2) years each.

Sec. 5. At the general election in 1966, and biennially thereafter, successors to those members of the Board of Education of Person County whose terms have expired shall be elected for terms of four (4) years each.

Sec. 6. Any vacancy occurring in the said Board of Education by death, resignation or otherwise shall be filled as is now provided by State law for the filling of vacancies in County Boards of Education, but such person appointed to fill the vacancy shall be appointed for the remainder of the unexpired term of the person creating the vacancy.

Sec. 7. The members of the Board of Education elected in the general elections in the year 1964, and biennially thereafter, shall hold office for a period of four (4) years and until their successors are elected and qualified. Terms shall commence upon March 1st of the year following the year of the general election, unless the General Assembly shall otherwise provide.

Sec. 8. All laws and clauses of laws in conflict with 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.