NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1971 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 522

HOUSE BILL 1031

 

AN ACT TO PROVIDE FOR THE NOMINATION AND ELECTION OF THE WILSON CITY BOARD OF EDUCATION.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

 

Section 1.  The Wilson City Board of Education shall consist of seven members.  The terms of office of the present members of said board of education shall expire upon the ratification of this act. Mrs. Edward B. Jordan and Eugene C. Neeland are hereby appointed members of said board of education to serve until their successors shall be elected in 1972, as provided for in this act.  Mrs. D. Stuart Walston and Mrs. William B. Young are hereby appointed members of said board to serve until their successors shall be elected in 1974, as provided for in this act.  W. Thomas Boswell, James V. Cobb, Jr., and Frank E. Emory are hereby appointed members of said board of education to serve until their successors are elected in 1976, as provided for in this act.

Sec. 2.  On the same day as the Statewide primary to be held in the year 1972, and biennially thereafter, the Wilson County Board of Elections shall conduct a nonpartisan election throughout the Wilson City Administrative School Unit for the election of members of the Wilson City Board of Education whose terms next expire. The successors to Mrs. Edward B. Jordan and Eugene C. Neeland appointed in Section 1 of this act shall be elected for terms of six years each.  Beginning in the year 1974 all members of this board shall be elected for terms of four years each.  In case of a vacancy caused by death, resignation, failure to qualify or for any other cause, the said vacancy shall be filled by appointment of the remaining members of said board until the next regular nonpartisan election of the members of said board of education.

Sec. 3.  The members of said board of education appointed by this act and their successors shall qualify by taking the oath of office on or before the second Monday in June next succeeding their election.

Sec. 4.  From and after July 1, 1971, the Chairman of the Wilson City Board of Education shall receive as compensation for his services the sum of six hundred dollars ($600.00) per year, payable in equal monthly installments.  From and after said date, each of the other members of said board of education shall receive as compensation for his services the sum of three hundred dollars ($300.00) per year, payable in equal monthly installments.

Sec. 5.  This act shall 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.