NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY
1967 SESSION

CHAPTER 87
SENATE BILL 123

AN ACT TO PROVIDE FOR THE ELECTION OF SEVEN MEMBERS TO THE BOARD OF EDUCATION OF THE RALEIGH CITY SCHOOL ADMINISTRATIVE UNIT, AND TO FIX THEIR TERMS OF OFFICE.

The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

Section 1. Chapter 856, Session Laws of 1963, is hereby amended by rewriting Section 1 to read as follows:
"Section 1. Presently incumbent members of the Board of Education of the Raleigh City School Administrative Unit shall hold terms of office as follows: Maurice P. Thiem, a term to expire July 1, 1971; Casper W. Holroyd, Jr., a term to expire July 1, 1971; William P. Duff, Jr., a term to expire July 1, 1971; Mrs. J. L. Stough, a term to expire July 1, 1969; and F. J. Carnage, a term to expire July 1, 1969. The terms of the aforementioned members shall run to the dates specified for the said members, and until their successors are elected and qualified."
Sec. 2. Chapter 856, Session Laws of 1963, is further amended by rewriting Section 2 thereof to read as follows:
"Sec. 2. From and after July 1, 1967, the Board of Education of the Raleigh City School Administrative Unit shall consist of seven (7) members. At the regular municipal election to be held in and for the City of Raleigh in May, 1967, there shall be elected two (2) additional members of the Board of Education, who shall hold terms of two (2) years commencing July 1, 1967, and until their successors are elected and qualified. In the municipal elections held in 1969 and biennially thereafter, there shall be elected the number of members equal to the number of members whose terms next expire during the year of such election, such members to be elected for terms of four (4) years and until their successors are elected and qualified."
Sec. 3. Chapter 856, Session Laws of 1963, is further amended by adding a new paragraph at the beginning of Section 31/2, to read as follows:
"If more than eight (8) candidates file for office in years when four vacancies on the Board are to be filled, a primary election shall be held and the eight (8) candidates receiving the highest number of votes in the primary election shall be certified as the only candidates whose names shall be placed on the ballot for election. If not more than eight (8) candidates file for office in such years, no primary shall be held as to such candidates and their names shall be the only names placed on the ballot for the election."
Sec. 4. All laws and clauses of laws in conflict with this Act are hereby repealed.
Sec. 5. 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 24th day of March, 1967.