S.L. 1979-312

1979 SESSION

CHAPTER 312

HOUSE BILL 727

AN ACT TO PROVIDE FOR THE NOMINATION AND ELECTION OF THE GRAHAM COUNTY SCHOOL BOARD.

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

Section 1. Effective December 1, 1980, the Board of Education of Graham County shall consist of five members to be nominated and elected by the qualified voters of the entire county for terms of four years.

Sec. 2. The Graham County Board of Education shall be elected on a partisan basis in the primary and general election, except that there shall be no second primary. The results of the primary shall be determined under the same procedures as G.S. 163-292.

Sec. 3. In 1980 and quadrennially thereafter, three members of the Graham County Board of Education shall be elected for four-year terms.

Sec. 4. In 1982 and quadrennially thereafter, two members of the Graham County Board of Education shall be elected for four-year terms.

Sec. 5. Except as provided in this act, the Graham County Board of Education shall be elected under the same laws and regulations pertaining to the nomination and election of county officers as provided in Chapter 163 of the General Statutes.

Sec. 6. Members of the board of education shall qualify by taking the oath of office on the first Monday in December of the year in which elected, at which time their term of office shall begin.

Sec. 7. The terms of office of the persons elected to the Graham County Board of Education in 1976 shall expire on the first Monday in December, 1980. The terms of office of the persons elected to the Graham County Board of Education in 1978 shall expire on the first Monday in December 1982.

Sec. 8. Chapter 1102, Session Laws of 1967, is repealed.

Sec. 9. All elections and acts of the Graham County Board of Education are validated and confirmed.

Sec. 10. This act is effective upon ratification.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 9th day of April, 1979.