GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA

1985 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 466

HOUSE BILL 489

 

AN ACT TO INCREASE THE NUMBER OF MEMBERS OF THE WINSTON- SALEM/FORSYTH COUNTY BOARD OF EDUCATION FROM EIGHT TO NINE MEMBERS, AND CHANGE THE LIMITATION ON REELECTION OR REAPPOINTMENT OF SCHOOL BOARD MEMBERS.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

 

Section 1.  Section 2(a)(5)(v) of Chapter 112, Session Laws of 1961, is amended by deleting "two successive", and substituting "three successive".

Sec. 2.  Section 2(a)(5)(ii) of Chapter 112, Session Laws of 1961, is rewritten to read:

"(ii)     Effective on the first Monday in December 1986, the Winston-Salem/Forsyth County Board of Education shall be composed of nine members. In the 1986 election and quadrennially thereafter, five persons shall be elected to the Winston- Salem/Forsyth County Board of Education for four-year terms. In the 1988 election and quadrennially thereafter, four persons shall be elected to the Winston-Salem/Forsyth County Board of Education for four-year terms."

Sec. 3.  Section 2(a)(5)(iii) of Chapter 112, Session Laws of 1961, is amended by striking the words "The four candidates of each party receiving" from the last sentence of that subsection, and substituting in lieu thereof the words: "The four or five candidates of each party, depending on the number of persons being elected in a given year, who receive".

Sec. 4.  This act does not affect the terms of office of persons serving on the Winston-Salem/Forsyth County Board of Education for terms to expire in 1986 or 1988.

Sec. 5.  This act is effective upon ratification.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 25th day of June, 1985.