NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1959 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 101

SENATE BILL 9

 

 

AN ACT CHANGING THE NAME OF "THE WEST ROCKINGHAM CITIES ADMINISTRATIVE SCHOOL UNIT" TO THE "MADISON-MAYODAN CITY ADMINISTRATIVE UNIT"; PROVIDING FOR THE NOMINATION AND ELECTION OF MEMBERS OF THE MADISON-MAYODAN CITY BOARD OF EDUCATION; FIXING THE TERMS OF OFFICE OF MEMBERS; AND PROVIDING FOR FILLING VACANCIES IN THE MEMBERSHIP OF SAID BOARD OF EDUCATION.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

 

Section 1. That the name of the administrative school unit created by Chapter 1197, Session Laws of 1957, shall be and the same is hereby changed from "The West Rockingham Cities Administrative School Unit" to the "Madison-Mayodan City Administrative Unit."

Sec. 2. (a) That in the primary election to be held in Rockingham County in 1960, two candidates residing in Mayodan and two candidates residing in said administrative unit at large shall be nominated in a nonpartisan primary to succeed the member from Mayodan and the member from the district at large whose terms of office expire in 1961. In the primary election of 1962 two candidates shall be nominated in a nonpartisan primary to succeed the member at large whose term expires in 1963. In a nonpartisan primary to be held in 1964 two candidates residing in Madison shall be nominated to succeed the member of said board from Madison and two candidates to succeed the member of said board from the unit at large whose terms expire in 1965.

In filing notice of candidacy, each candidate shall indicate in his notice the area which he wishes to represent on said board of education. The Rockingham County Board of Elections is hereby authorized and directed to conduct a nonpartisan primary for the nomination of members of the Madison-Mayodan City Board of Education biennially at the same time candidates for county offices are nominated and the ballots shall carry detailed instructions as to the number of candidates for whom each elector will be entitled to vote. In said primary election every duly qualified elector residing within said administrative school unit whether registered as a Democrat, as a Republican or as an Independent shall be entitled to vote in such nonpartisan primary.

Sec. 2. (b) In the general election of 1960 and biennially thereafter there shall be chosen by the qualified electors of the Madison-Mayodan Administrative Unit, and from the candidates nominated in the nonpartisan primary provided for in this Act, the members of the Madison-Mayodan City Board of Education to succeed the members whose terms next expire. The terms of office of members of said board of education so elected shall begin on January 2 following their election, and the terms of office of the present members of said board of education shall expire on January 2 of the years following the years originally designated for their expiration instead of at the time their successors were to be appointed by the General Assembly.

Sec. 3. When a vacancy shall occur in the membership of said city board of education by death, resignation or otherwise except by expiration of the term, a successor shall be nominated for the remainder of the unexpired term by the remaining members of said board; and such nominee shall be appointed by the Rockingham County Board of Commissioners. Each member nominated and appointed to serve an unexpired term on said board of education shall conform to the same residence requirements as the person whose unexpired term he is appointed to fill.

Sec. 4. All laws and clauses of laws in conflict with the provisions of this Act are hereby repealed.

Sec. 5. This Act shall be in full force and effect on and after its ratification.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 20th day of March, 1959.