NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1959 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 9

HOUSE BILL 93

 

 

AN ACT TO PERMIT RESIDENTS OF THE CARRBORO SCHOOL ATTENDANCE AREA TO BE CANDIDATES AND VOTERS IN THE 1959 ELECTION FOR MEMBERS OF THE CHAPEL HILL CITY BOARD OF EDUCATION.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

 

Section 1. Chapter 254 of the Session Laws of 1955 is hereby amended by deleting Section 3 thereof and substituting therefor the following:

"Sec. 3. The members of the Chapel Hill City Board of Education shall be elected biennially at the same time the municipal officers are chosen for the Town of Chapel Hill, such elections to be conducted under the supervision of the County Board of Elections of Orange County. Those eligible to vote in elections for members of the Chapel Hill City Board of Education shall be: All persons eligible and registered to vote for members of the governing body of the Town of Chapel Hill or the governing body of the Town of Carrboro; and all eligible voters residing within the area of the Chapel Hill Administrative School Unit, but not within the town limits of Chapel Hill or Carrboro, who register for such elections. The County Board of Elections is authorized to call for a registration for such elections. For purposes of determining eligibility to vote in the election to be held in 1959, residents within the Carrboro School Attendance Area, which will become a part of the Chapel Hill Administrative School Unit on July 1, 1959, shall be deemed to be residents within the Unit. The Orange County Board of Elections is authorized: To divide the Chapel Hill Administrative School Unit into election precincts as may be necessary or desirable; to provide a separate ballot for the election of members of the Chapel Hill City Board of Education; to designate the registrars and judges of election of the Towns of Chapel Hill and Carrboro as registrars and judges of election in elections for members of the Chapel Hill City Board of Education; and to perform all other functions essential to the calling and supervising of elections for members of the Chapel Hill City Board of Education."

Sec. 2. Chapter 254 of the Session Laws of 1955 is hereby amended by changing the period at the end of Section 4 thereof to a colon and adding the following:

"Provided, that in determining eligibility to become a candidate in the 1959 election, residents within the Carrboro School Attendance Area, which will become a part of the Chapel Hill Administrative School Unit on July 1, 1959, shall be deemed to be residents within the Unit."

Sec. 3. All laws and clauses of laws in conflict with this Act are hereby repealed.

Sec. 4. 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 February, 1959.