NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY
1965 SESSION

CHAPTER 755
HOUSE BILL 644

AN ACT RELATING TO THE NOMINATION, ELECTION AND COMPENSATION OF THE MEMBERS OF THE COUNTY BOARD OF EDUCATION OF CHATHAM COUNTY.

The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:
Section 1. The Board of Education of Chatham County shall consist of five qualified electors of said county.
Sec. 2. In the primary election of county officers of Chatham County to be held in the year 1966, the political parties of the county shall nominate as their candidates for membership on the Chatham County Board of Education one candidate from each of the districts hereinafter defined.
Sec. 3. For the purposes of nominating and electing members of the County Board of Education of Chatham County, the county is hereby divided into five districts as follows:
District Number One shall consist of all the territory within the boundaries of the townships of Center, Hadley, and Hickory Mountain.
District Number Two shall consist of all the territory within the boundaries of the townships of Mathews and Albright.
District Number Three shall consist of all the territory within the boundaries of the townships of Baldwin, New Hope and Williams.
District Number Four shall consist of all the territory within the boundaries of the townships of Haw River, Cape Fear, and Oakland.
District Number Five shall consist of all the territory within the boundaries of the townships of Bear Creek and Gulf.
Sec. 4. Each candidate shall be a qualified elector in the district for which he is a candidate. Each candidate for nomination to the office of member of the Chatham County Board of Education shall be voted upon in the primary only by the qualified voters of the district of which he is a resident and from which he is a candidate, and the candidate from each district, of each party receiving a majority of the votes cast by the electors of each such district, shall be declared the nominee of his respective party in the district in which he is qualified and is a candidate. In the event that no candidate in any district heretofore referred to receives a majority of the votes cast in the first primary, there shall be a second primary between the two highest candidates in the district, which shall be conducted in the same manner as second primaries held for the nomination of other county officers.
Sec. 5. The five members of the Chatham County Board of Education holding office at the date of ratification of this Act, or any successor appointed to fill any unexpired portion of the present terms of such members shall hold said office until the members authorized under this Act are elected and qualified.
Sec. 6. At the primary to be held in 1966, the three candidates receiving the highest number of votes in the primary shall serve for a term of four years each. The two candidates receiving the next highest number of votes in the 1966 primary shall serve for a term of two years each. At the 1968 primary, and quadrennially thereafter, there shall be nominated and elected two members for the districts represented by the persons whose terms then expire. In the 1970 primary, and quadrennially thereafter, there shall be nominated and elected three members for the districts represented by the persons whose terms then expire.
Sec. 7. The names of the candidates of each party and the length of the terms for each who is nominated shall be duly certified by the chairman of the County Board of Elections ten days after their nomination is declared by said County Board of Elections to the State Superintendent of Public Instruction who shall transmit the names together with the name of the political party nominating them to the chairman of the Committee on Education in the next Session of the General Assembly within ten days after it convenes.
Sec. 8. The chairman of the Board of Education of Chatham County shall receive a per diem of twenty dollars ($20.00) plus seven cents (7¢) per mile when engaged in the performance of the duties of his office, and the remaining members of the Chatham County Board of Education shall receive a per diem of fifteen dollars ($15.00) plus seven cents (7¢) per mile when engaged in the performance of the duties of his office.
Sec. 9. Chapter 326 of the Session Laws of 1951, Chapter 453 of the Public Laws of 1915, Chapter 152 of the Public Laws of 1919, Chapter 279 of the Public Laws of 1921, Chapter 558 of the Session Laws of 1955 and all other laws and clauses of laws in conflict with this Act are hereby repealed.
Sec. 10. 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 1st day of June, 1965.