NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY
1971 SESSION

CHAPTER 754
HOUSE BILL 1279

AN ACT TO FIX THE TERM OF OFFICE OF MEMBERS OF THE CHARLOTTE- MECKLENBURG BOARD OF EDUCATION.

The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

Section 1. The term of office of the members of the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Board of Education beginning with those members taking office on the board on the first Monday in December in 1972 shall be four (4) years.
Sec. 2. Three members of the board of education shall be elected to take office on the first Monday in December in 1972, and three members of the board of education shall be elected to take office on the first Monday in December in 1974.  Five members of the board of education shall be elected to take office on the first Monday in December in 1976, and four members of the board of education shall be elected to take office on the first Monday in December in 1976, and four members of the board of education shall be elected to take office on the first Monday in December of 1978. In order to have a full board of nine members from the first Monday in December of 1976 until the first Monday in December of 1978, one additional member shall be elected to take office on the first Monday in December of 1976 for a period of two years only. The person elected to the two-year term shall be the candidate who has the sixth highest number of votes in the election as the election is finally determined.  Following the election in 1978 at which four members are elected to the board of education an election shall be held in 1980 to elect five members and each four years thereafter an election shall be held to elect five members to the board.  Each four years after 1978 an election shall be held to elect four members to the board of education.
Sec. 3. All laws and clauses of laws in conflict with this act are hereby repealed.
Sec. 4. This act shall take effect upon its ratification.
In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 5th day of July, 1971.