NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY
1967 SESSION

CHAPTER 1174
SENATE BILL 712

AN ACT TO PROVIDE FOR THE NOMINATION AND ELECTION OF MEMBERS TO THE BOARD OF EDUCATION OF SWAIN COUNTY.

The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

Section 1. The Board of Education of Swain County shall consist of five members to be nominated and elected by the qualified voters of the entire County as herein provided. The terms of the present members of the Board of Education of said County shall expire on the first Monday in April, 1969.
Sec. 2. In the primary and general election to be held for county officers in 1968 there shall be nominated and elected three members of the Swain County Board of Education. The three candidates shall be elected for terms of four years. In 1970, and biennially thereafter, there shall be nominated and elected members of the County Board of Education to take the place of the members whose terms next expire and the persons so elected shall be elected for terms of four years.
Sec. 3. The primary and general election provided for herein shall be held and conducted at the same time and under the same laws and regulations pertaining to the nomination and election of county officers as provided in Chapter 163 of the General Statutes except as otherwise provided herein. If the number of candidates of a political party filing notice of candidacy is less or equal to the number of offices to be filled, then such candidates shall be declared the nominees for such political party and no primary election shall be held for such candidates or party, and such nominees' names shall appear on the general election ballot.
Sec. 4. Any vacancy occurring on the Board of Education of Swain County, for any reason, shall for the remainder of the unexpired term be filled by the county executive committee of the political party to which the member causing the vacancy belongs.
Sec. 5. The Swain County Board of Education shall hold its organizational meeting on the first Monday in April, 1969, and biennially thereafter, and shall elect a chairman and such other officers as it deems necessary.
Sec. 6. Members of the Board of Education elected in 1968, and thereafter, shall qualify by taking the oath of office on the first Monday in April, 1969 of the year at which time their term of office shall begin. 
Sec. 7. The term of office of the present members of the Swain County Board of Education, all of which expire in April, 1969, shall continue until the first Monday in April, 1969, at which time their terms shall terminate.
Sec. 8. All laws and clauses of laws in conflict with this Act are hereby repealed.
Sec. 9. 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 6th day of July, 1967.