NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1975 SESSION

CHAPTER 888

SENATE BILL 533

AN ACT TO REQUIRE THE STATE BOARD OF EDUCATION TO REVISE AND RECODIFY CHAPTER 115 OF THE GENERAL STATUTES, ENTITLED "ELEMENTARY AND SECONDARY EDUCATION".

Whereas, Article IX, Section 5, of the State Constitution provides that the State Board of Education shall supervise and administer the free public school system; and

Whereas, the General Statutes relating to the public school laws of North Carolina are out of date and need revision; and

Whereas, the General Statutes relating to the public schools are being revised from time to time on a piecemeal basis without a thorough study being made of the entire public school laws to determine what effect such revisions may have on other sections of these laws; and

Whereas, the North Carolina General Assembly looks to the State Board of Education for revisions in the Statutes relating to the public school laws; Now, therefore,

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

Section 1.  The North Carolina State Board of Education shall, upon ratification of this act, provide for a revision of the public school laws, Chapter 115 of the General Statutes, in a manner which will best serve the needs and interests of the public schools of this State.

Sec. 2.  In order to accomplish the revision of the public school laws a special commission on revision and recodification comprised of 15 members shall be appointed. This commission shall consist of six members of the North Carolina General Assembly, three of whom shall be appointed by the Lieutenant Governor, and three of whom shall be appointed by the Speaker of the House of Representatives. Of the remaining nine members, five members shall be appointed by the North Carolina State Board of Education and four members shall be appointed by the Superintendent of Public Instruction. Included in the five members appointed by the North Carolina State Board of Education shall be one classroom teacher, one local superintendent of schools, one local school board member, one county commissioner and one member of the public-at-large. Included in the four members appointed by the Superintendent of Public Instruction shall be one school principal, one local school board member, one county commissioner, and one member of the public-at-large.

Sec. 3.  The State Board of Education shall select from the membership of the commission one member who shall serve as the commission's chairman. The State Board of Education shall provide the required administrative and clerical assistance necessary to facilitate the operations of this commission and such other supportive services as may be required. There is hereby appropriated from the General Fund to the State Board of Education for fiscal year 1975-1976 the sum of twenty-five thousand dollars ($25,000) and for the fiscal year 1976-1977 the sum of twenty-five thousand dollars ($25,000) to meet the necessary expenses of the special commission.

Sec. 4.  The special commission on revision and recodification shall complete its deliberations and present its recommendations to the North Carolina State Board of Education no later than the regularly scheduled meeting of the State Board of Education for December, 1976.

The State Board of Education shall prepare a revision of the public school laws and shall present the proposed revision to the North Carolina General Assembly no later than March 15, 1977.

Sec. 5.  This act shall become effective upon ratification and, if it is deemed necessary by the chairman of the State Board of Education, a special session of the board shall be called in order to accomplish the purposes of this legislation.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 26th day of June, 1975.