NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1963 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 969

HOUSE BILL 1070

 

 

AN ACT TO PROVIDE FOR THE ELECTION, TERMS AND COMPENSATION OF THE SCHOOL BOARD OF THE ROCKINGHAM CITY SCHOOL ADMINISTRATIVE UNIT IN RICHMOND COUNTY.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

 

Section 1. The members of the School Board of the Rockingham City School Administrative Unit shall consist of five members to be elected at the regular municipal election of the City of Rockingham and at the same time that the Mayor and members of the City Council are elected.

Sec. 2. At the regular municipal election of the City of Rockingham, to be held on the first Tuesday after the first Monday in May, 1965, and biennially thereafter, there shall be elected three members of the Rockingham City School Board. The two candidates who shall receive the highest number of votes, among those candidates seeking a four-year term, shall be elected for a term of four (4) years. The candidate who receives the highest number of votes, among those candidates seeking a two-year term, shall be elected for a term of two (2) years. All members of the Board of Education shall serve until their successors are elected. and qualified.

Sec. 3. The School Board of the Rockingham City School Administrative Unit shall certify to the Clerk of the City of Rockingham, thirty (30) days prior to the date of the election, the exact boundaries of the Rockingham City School Administrative Unit.

Sec. 4. Any qualified elector residing in the Rockingham City School Administrative Unit School District shall be eligible to vote and to be a candidate for membership on the School Board. The election shall be held by the same officials and the procedure and method of election as used in the election of a Mayor and members of the Council of the City of Rockingham, shall be the procedure and method used in the election to membership on the Rockingham City School Board.

Sec. 5. A separate registration book shall be provided for the registration of voters who live within the Rockingham City School Administrative Unit, but outside the corporate limits of the City of Rockingham. This separate registration book shall be retained by the registrar who is responsible for the registration of voters who live within the corporate limits of the City of Rockingham. The time and place of registration controlling the registration of voters who live within the Rockingham City School Administrative Unit, but outside the corporate limits of the City of Rockingham, shall conform in all respects to the requirements of the Charter of the City of Rockingham governing election procedures for the regular municipal election of the City of Rockingham. All voters registered under this Section 5 shall have the right to vote only for those candidates for the School Board of the Rockingham City School Administrative Unit in Richmond County.

Sec. 6. Any person qualified to vote in the Rockingham City School Board election who resides within the corporate limits of the City of Rockingham or who resides within the Rockingham City School Administrative Unit may become a candidate for membership on the School Board in the same manner as is provided with respect to a qualified voter in the City of Rockingham.

Sec. 7. If an elected School Board Member shall refuse to be qualified or if there is any vacancy in the office of School Board members after election and qualification, or if any School Board member be unable to discharge the duties of his office, the remaining members of the School Board shall elect some person to serve the unexpired term, or during his disability, as the case may be. School Board members so elected shall have all authority and powers granted by this Charter to regularly elected members of the School Board.

Sec. 8. Before entering upon their offices, members of the School Board shall severally take oath before the Clerk of the Superior Court of Richmond County, State of North Carolina, to perform faithfully the duties of their respective offices. Any member of the School Board, after his election and prior to the first meeting of the School Board as provided by this Charter, may take his oath of office as herein provided.

Sec. 9. Those persons elected or appointed and qualified to serve on the Rockingham City Board of Education shall assume office at the first regular meeting of the School Board following their election or appointment to the said School Board.

Sec. 10. The School Board as herein constituted shall determine its own rules and order of business, times of meeting and shall cause to be kept a journal of its proceedings.

Sec. 11. Effective July 1, 1963, the members of the Rockingham City Board of Education shall receive the following compensation for their services: The Chairman of the said Board shall receive fifteen dollars ($15.00), and each Board member shall receive ten dollars ($10.00), for attending such regular, recessed and special meetings of said Board.

Sec. 12. The Rockingham City School Board is authorized and empowered to assume and carry out all Acts, authority and the laws applicable to said School Board as defined and prescribed by Chapter 115, Education, of the General Statutes of the State of North Carolina.

Sec. 13. Chapter 717, Session Laws of 1949, and Chapter 931, Session Laws of 1961, are specifically repealed, and all laws and clauses of laws in conflict with this Act are hereby repealed.

Sec. 14. 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 18th day of June, 1963.