NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1973 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 146

SENATE BILL 437

 

AN ACT TO PROVIDE FOR THE ELECTION OF THE AVERY COUNTY BOARD OF EDUCATION.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

 

Section 1. The Avery County Board of Education shall consist of five members who shall serve staggered terms of four years.  The election shall be nonpartisan and no primary election shall be held.

Sec. 2. Beginning in 1974, and biennially thereafter, the election for members of the Avery County Board of Education shall be held at the same time as the regular primary for county officers. The candidates equal to the number of members to be elected who receive the highest number of votes shall be elected. Candidates shall file notice of candidacy as required by general law, and except as provided herein, the election shall be held and conducted in accordance with general law regulating elections for county officers.

Sec. 3. Those person elected in 1974, and thereafter, shall qualify as provided in G.S. 115-22. Vacancies occurring on the Board of Education for any cause shall be filled for the unexpired term by a qualified voter appointed by the remaining members of the Board of Education.

Sec. 4. Those members of the Board of Education who are elected in 1973, pursuant to Chapter 1181, Session Laws of 1969, shall serve until the first Monday in December 1976.  Their successors to be elected in 1976, and thereafter, shall serve terms of four years commencing on the first Monday in December following their election.

Sec. 5. The terms of the present members of the Avery County Board of Education whose terms are scheduled to expire in 1975, pursuant to Chapter 1181, Session Laws of 1969, are hereby reduced to expire on the first Monday in December 1974. Their successors to be elected in 1974, and thereafter, shall serve for terms of four years commencing on the first Monday in December following their election.

Sec. 6. Except for the purpose of the election to be held on the last Tuesday in March 1973, Chapter 1181, Session Laws of 1969, is hereby repealed. All laws and clauses of laws in conflict with this act are hereby repealed to the extent of such conflict.

Sec. 7. This act is effective upon ratification.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 9th day of April, 1973.