NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1973 SESSION

CHAPTER 852

HOUSE BILL 1459

AN ACT PROVIDING FOR THE NOMINATION AND ELECTION OF THE SANFORD-LEE COUNTY BOARD OF EDUCATION.

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

Section 1. The Sanford-Lee County Board of Education shall consist of seven members, to be elected by the voters of the county on a nonpartisan basis as herein provided, who shall serve for a term of four years.  The term of office of each member shall begin on the first Monday in December, next succeeding his election, and shall serve until a successor has been elected and qualified.

Sec. 2. The Sanford-Lee County Board of Education shall initially consist of the following members: J. M. Auman, Mary Alice Holmes, M. Cade Covington, Nan G. Howard, Paul J. Barringer, Jr., Robert W. Dalrymple and J. Glenn Edwards.

J. M. Auman, Nan G. Howard and Robert W. Dalrymple shall hold their offices until the first Monday in December, 1974, or until their successors are elected and qualified as provided for in this act.  The remaining members of the Sanford-Lee County Board of Education shall continue to hold their offices until the first Monday in December, 1976, or until their successors are elected and qualified as provided for in this act.

Sec. 3. At the primary election for county officers held for Lee County in 1974, there shall be elected three members of the Sanford-Lee County Board of Education.  At the primary election for county officers held in Lee County in 1976, there shall be elected four members of the Sanford-Lee County Board of Education. Thereafter, biennially there shall be elected members of the Sanford-Lee County Board of Education to succeed the members whose terms next expire.

Sec. 4. This act shall become effective upon ratification.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 11th day of February, 1974.