NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1965 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 599

HOUSE BILL 739

 

 

AN ACT TO ESTABLISH DISTRICTS FOR THE NOMINATION OF MEMBERS OF THE BOARD OF EDUCATION OF DARE COUNTY AND TO PROVIDE FOR STAGGERED TERMS.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

 

Section 1. The Board of Education of Dare County shall be composed of five members who shall serve, except as provided in Section 3 below, for terms of four years.

Sec. 2. There are hereby created five districts in Dare County for the nomination of members of the county board of education. The districts shall be numbered One, Two, Three, Four and Five and shall be comprised as follows:

1.     District No. One - Nags Head Township.

2.     District No. Two - Atlantic Township.

3.     District No. Three - Croatan and East Lake Townships.

4.     District No. Four - Hatteras and Kennekett Townships.

5.     District No. Five - All of Dare County.

Sec. 3. At the primary to be held in 1966 there shall be nominated by each political party one nominee for the board of education from each of the five districts set out in Section 2. The nominees from Districts One and Five shall be deemed to have been nominated for terms of four years. The nominees from Districts Two, Three and Four shall be deemed to have been nominated for a term of two years. At the primary held in 1968, and quadrennially thereafter, there shall be nominated persons for the districts represented by the three persons whose terms then expire. At the primary held in 1970, and quadrennially thereafter, there shall be nominated persons for the districts represented by the two persons whose terms then expire.

Sec. 4. The candidates in the primary from each respective district shall be voted on by all of the qualified voters of Dare County, and the candidate from each respective district who receives the largest number of votes shall be declared to be the nominee of his party, and his name shall be certified by the chairman of the county board of elections as provided in Section 115-19 of the General Statutes.

Sec. 5. The laws governing the nomination and election of members of county boards of education which are not in conflict with this Act shall be as provided in the General Statutes.

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 All laws and clauses of laws in conflict with this Act are hereby repealed.

Sec. 7. This Act shall become effective upon its ratification.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 18th day of May, 1965.