NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1963 SESSION

CHAPTER 430

HOUSE BILL 679

AN ACT PROVIDING FOR A REFERENDUM ELECTION IN WAKELON, WENDELL, KNIGHTDALE AND ROLESVILLE SCHOOL DISTRICTS OF WAKE COUNTY UPON THE QUESTION OF WHETHER OR NOT THE INDIVIDUAL SCHOOL DISTRICTS SHOULD BE INCLUDED AS A PART OF THE NEW DISTRICT THIRTEEN.

The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

Section 1. The Wake County Board of Education is hereby authorized, empowered and directed to call, conduct and defray the costs of a referendum election in the Wakelon, Wendell, Knightdale and Rolesville School Districts. At said referendum election the following question shall be submitted to the qualified voters of each of said individual school districts:

"Whether or not that individual district shall be included in District 13."

The ballots shall be so arranged that the qualified voters of each individual school district in favor of the consolidation of their district will vote "for" and those opposed to consolidation of their individual district shall vote "against". A majority of those voting in the referendum in each of the above school districts shall determine whether or not the qualified voters of each such district are in favor of or opposed to the consolidation of their individual district.

Sec. 2. Said referendum election shall be conducted by the Wake County Board of Education following the applicable provisions of Chapter 115, Section 122, et seq., of the General Statutes of North Carolina, and said board shall include only those districts in new District 13, which by a majority of those voting express their desire to become a part of said District 13. The Wake County Board of Education shall order and conduct a new registration which shall be carried out according to the provisions of G. S. 115-122, and it shall be the duty of the Wake County Board of Education to provide for all necessary election officers, registration books and polling places in each of said school districts. The Wake County Board of Education shall canvass the votes cast in said referendum or election and shall judicially determine the results of same.

Sec. 3. The Wake County Board of Education shall not be required to form the proposed new District 13 unless at least three of the aforementioned districts vote to be included in proposed District 13.

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 All laws and clauses of laws in conflict with the provisions of this Act are hereby repealed.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 from and after its ratification.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 15th day of May, 1963.