NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY
1961 SESSION

CHAPTER 321
HOUSE BILL 440

AN ACT TO PROVIDE FOR THE NOMINATION OF THE MEMBERS OF THE BOARD OF EDUCATION OF PAMLICO COUNTY.

The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

Section 1. The Board of Education of Pamlico County shall consist of seven (7) members, and each member shall serve and hold office for a term of two years and shall be nominated and appointed as hereinafter set forth.
Sec. 2. At the next primary election to be held in Pamlico County for the nomination of county officers in the year 1962, and every two years thereafter, there shall be nominated by each of the political parties of Pamlico County one member of the Board of Education from each of Townships One, Two, Three and Four therein; one member from that portion of Township Five which lies east of the present dividing line between the Arapahoe and the Oriental elementary school districts; one member from that portion of Township Five which lies west of said school district dividing line; and one member at large from Townships One, Two, Three and Four combined.
Sec. 3. In the event there are more than two candidates for any one of the seven positions on the County Board of Education as hereinabove provided, the candidate receiving the highest number of votes shall be declared nominated; and if there is no candidate for each political party for any one of said positions, the executive committee of the political party which has no candidate shall, within thirty days of the date of the primary election, nominate such candidate.
Sec. 4. The names of the persons so nominated, as provided in this Act, shall be duly certified by the Chairman of the County Board of Elections within ten days after their nomination is declared by the said County Board of Elections to the superintendent of Public Instruction of North Carolina, to be transmitted by him to the Chairman of the Committee on Education in the next General Assembly as provided by G. S. 115‑19, and to be elected or appointed to membership on said Board as therein provided.
Sec. 5. The nomination of candidates for membership on the Board of Education of Pamlico County shall be participated in by the qualified voters of the entire county voting as a whole. It shall be the duty of the County Board of Elections of Pamlico County to prepare and distribute the ballots for the candidates as herein provided and to conduct the primary for said nominations according to the general primary laws of the State.
Sec. 6. All laws and clauses of laws in conflict with the provisions of this Act are hereby repealed.
Sec. 7. This Act shall be in full force and effect from and after its ratification.
In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 2nd day of May, 1961.