NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY
1967 SESSION

CHAPTER 468
HOUSE BILL 698

AN ACT TO REWRITE CHAPTER 849 OF THE SESSION LAWS OF 1963, RELATING TO THE NOMINATION AND APPOINTMENT OF THE MEMBERS OF THE COUNTY BOARD OF EDUCATION OF BRUNSWICK COUNTY.

The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

Section 1. Chapter 849 of the Session Laws of 1963, relating to the nomination and election of the County Board of Education of Brunswick County is hereby rewritten to read as follows:
"Section 1. The Board of Education of Brunswick County shall continue to consist of five members, to be chosen and to serve as hereinafter provided.
"Sec. 2. At the time of the primary election to be held in Brunswick County for State and county officers in the year 1968, and each four years thereafter, there shall be nominated one member of the Board of Education for each of the Waccamaw and Leland school districts; at the time of the primary election to be held in Brunswick County for State and county officers in the year 1970, and every four years thereafter, there shall be nominated one member of the Board of Education for each of the Southport, Bolivia and Shallotte school districts.
"Sec. 3. One candidate shall be nominated from each of the above districts and candidates shall file notice of candidacy with the Board of Elections within the time allowed candidates in the primary, which said notice shall state the district from which said candidate is filing and that he is a resident and qualified elector in said district and county and the political party affiliation of said candidate. The filing fee shall be ten dollars ($10.00).
"Sec. 4. There shall be provided a separate ballot and said ballot shall be arranged according to the primary laws as set forth in Chapter 163 of the General Statutes, as amended. Candidates from each district shall be voted upon in said primary by the electors of the county at large. If as a result of said primary a candidate from any district does not receive a majority of the votes cast for candidates from any particular district, then the candidate receiving the second highest number of votes cast for candidates from the particular district involved shall be eligible to call for a runoff as provided by the primary laws of the State.
"Sec. 5. The successful candidate receiving the nomination from each district shall be certified by the County Board of Elections to the State Superintendent of Public Instruction for such action as is required under the provisions of G. S. 115‑19. The successful candidate from each district so certified and appointed, as required by G. S. 115‑19, shall qualify and take the oath of office on the first Monday in April of the year following his nomination and appointment and shall serve for four years or until his successor is nominated, appointed and qualified. The candidates in such primary shall file and stand for nomination in each year a primary is held following the expiration of their terms of office.
"Sec. 6. Any vacancy occurring in the membership of the Board of Education of Brunswick County by death, resignation, change of residence, removal or otherwise, shall be filled by the remaining members of said Board of Education for the remainder of the unexpired term but the person so appointed to fill such vacancy must be from the same district and must affiliate with the same political party as the person whose death, resignation, change of residence, or removal created the vacancy on the said Board of Education. If there is no candidate from any district from which a candidate should be nominated in said primary, then this shall constitute a vacancy on said Board of Education which shall be filled as hereinabove provided."
Sec. 2. All laws and clauses of laws in conflict with the provisions of this Act are hereby repealed.
Sec. 3. 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 16th day of May, 1967.