NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1971 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 521

HOUSE BILL 1013

 

AN ACT TO PROVIDE FOR THE NOMINATION, ELECTION AND TERMS OF OFFICE OF MEMBERS OF THE WASHINGTON COUNTY BOARD OF EDUCATION.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

 

Section 1.  The Washington County Board of Education shall consist of five members who shall be elected by a vote of the people of Washington County on a partisan basis in the same manner as members of the General Assembly.  The term of office of each member shall be for four years.

Sec. 2.  Washington County shall, for purposes of electing members of the Washington County Board of Education, be divided into election or residence areas as follows:  one election or residence area shall consist of Plymouth Township, which shall be designated District One; one election or residence area shall consist of Lees Mill Township, which shall be designated District Two; one election or residence area shall consist of Skinnersville and Scuppernong Townships, which shall be designated District Three; and one election or residence area shall consist of all of Washington County, which shall be designated District Four.  Two members shall reside in District One, one member shall reside in District Two, and one member shall reside in District Three.  The member for District Four may reside anywhere in Washington County and shall be designated as Member at Large.  All members shall be nominated and elected by the voters of the county as a whole. When the term of office of any member elected prior to the effective date of this act shall expire, then this act shall be applicable to the nomination and election of the successor to such member, which successor shall reside in the appropriate district as hereinabove defined.

Sec. 3.  The successors in office to the two members whose terms expire on the first Monday in December, 1972, shall be nominated and elected as follows:  one member from District One and one member from District Three.  The successors in office to the three members whose terms expire on the first Monday in December, 1974, shall be nominated and elected as follows:  one member from District One, one member from District Two, and one member from District Four, (Member at Large).

Sec. 4.  At the primaries and general elections to be held in 1972 and biennially thereafter, as their terms of office expire, the members of the Washington County Board of Education shall be nominated and elected according to the primary and general election laws established for the nomination and election of members of the General Assembly.

Sec. 5.  The chairman and members of the Washington County Board of Education shall receive the compensation provided for them in Chapter 358 of the Session Laws of 1959.

Sec. 6.  Any vacancy on the Washington County Board of Education by reason of death, resignation, change of residence of a member from the district from which nominated and elected, physical inability to perform the duties of his office, or otherwise, shall be filled by appointment by the remaining members of the Board.  The person appointed to fill a vacancy shall be a member of the same political party and a resident of the same district as the member causing the vacancy. The Board shall consult the County Executive Committee of the appropriate political party before filling a vacancy, but shall not be bound by its recommendations. Said Board of Education shall have such authority, powers and duties as are provided by Chapter 115 of the General Statutes of North Carolina, as amended, and such other powers and duties as may be given to said Board of Education by any public-local or local act.

Sec. 7.  Chapter 282 of the Session Laws of 1969 is hereby repealed.

Sec. 8.  All laws and clauses of laws in conflict with the provisions of this act are hereby repealed.

Sec. 9.  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 7th day of June, 1971.