NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1961 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 327

HOUSE BILL 514

 

 

AN ACT TO ESTABLISH AND PROVIDE FOR THE NOMINATION AND SELECTION OF THE MEMBERS OF THE BOARD OF EDUCATION OF COLUMBUS COUNTY.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

 

Section 1. The Board of Education of Columbus County shall consist of seven (7) members, and each member shall serve and hold office for a term of two (2) years and shall be nominated and appointed as hereinafter set forth.

Sec. 2. At the next primary election to be held in Columbus County for the nomination of county officers in the year of 1962, and every two years thereafter, there shall be nominated by each of the political parties of Columbus County one member of the Board of Education of Columbus County from each of the zones described as follows:

Zone 1 shall consist of South Williams Township;

Zone 2 shall consist of North Williams Township;

Zone 3 shall consist of Chadbourn and Cerro Gordo Townships;

Zone 4 shall consist of Fair Bluff and Tatum's Townships;

Zone 5 shall consist of Welch's Creek, Waccamaw, and Bogue Townships;

Zone 6 shall consist of Boton and Ransom Townships;

Zone 7 shall consist of Bug Hill and Lees Township excluding, however, from Lees Township the territory embraced in the precinct known as North Lees.

Sec. 3. Each zone shall be entitled to one member on said Board of Education of Columbus County and in the event there are more than two candidates for any one of the seven (7) positions on the Board of Education of Columbus County as hereinabove provided, the candidate receiving the highest number of votes shall be declared nominated; and if there is no candidate for each political party for any one of said positions, the executive committee of the political party which has no candidate shall, within thirty (30) days of the date of the primary election, nominate such candidate.

Sec. 4. The names of the persons so nominated, as provided in this Act, shall be duly certified by the chairman of the county board of elections within ten (10) days after their nomination is declared by the said county board of elections to the Superintendent of Public Instruction of North Carolina, to be transmitted by him to the chairman of the committee on education in the next General Assembly as provided by G. S. 115-19, and to be elected or appointed to membership on said board as therein provided.

Sec. 5. The nomination of candidates for membership on the Board of Education of Columbus County shall be participated in by the qualified voters residing in the seven zones described in Section 2 of this Act voting as a whole. Any candidate for membership on said board of education must be a resident and qualified voter in the zone for which he stands as a candidate. It shall be the duty of the County Board of Elections of Columbus County to prepare and distribute the ballots for the candidates as herein provided and to conduct the primary for said nominations according to the general primary laws of the State.

Sec. 6. All laws and clauses of laws in conflict with this Act are hereby repealed.

Sec. 7. 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 2nd day of May, 1961.