GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA

1983 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 408

HOUSE BILL 329

 

AN ACT TO AMEND G.S. 115C-41 PERTAINING TO ORGANIZATION OF LOCAL BOARDS OF EDUCATION.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

 

Section 1.  G.S. 115C-41 is amended by rewriting subsection (a) as follows:

"(a)      Unless otherwise provided by local law, all local boards of education shall have an organizational meeting no later than 60 days after the swearing in of members following election or appointment and as often thereafter as the board shall determine appropriate. The board may fix the date and time of its organizational meeting. At the organizational meeting the members of all boards shall elect one of their members as chairman for a period of one year, or until his successor is elected and qualified. The chairman of the local board of education shall preside at the meetings of the board, and in the event of his absence or sickness, the board may appoint one of its members temporary chairman. The superintendent of schools, whether a county or city superintendent, shall be ex officio secretary to his respective board. He shall keep the minutes of the meetings of the board but shall have no vote: Provided, that in the event of a vacancy in the superintendency, the board may elect one of its members to serve temporarily as secretary to the board."

Sec. 2.  This act is effective upon ratification.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 31st day of May, 1983.