NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1971 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 530

HOUSE BILL 844

 

AN ACT TO PROVIDE FOR THE ELECTION OF THE MEMBERS OF THE HALIFAX COUNTY BOARD OF EDUCATION.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

 

Section 1.  Notwithstanding G.S. 115-18, the Halifax County Board of Education shall consist of seven members elected by the voters of the county at large.

Sec. 2.  The terms of office of the present members of the Halifax County Board of Education shall continue until their successors are elected and qualified.

Sec. 3.  The terms of Mrs. Joyce H. Shearin, C. M. Moore, Jr., Mrs. Eleanor C. Leggett and A. G. Wilcox, Jr., shall expire on the first Monday in December, 1972.  At the time of the primary in 1972, four persons shall be elected members of the Halifax County Board of Education to fill these four expiring terms.  At the time of the primary in 1976, and every four years thereafter, four members of the Halifax County Board of Education shall be elected to fill the four terms expiring in each of those years.

The terms of Mrs. Dorothy M. Williams, W. Carlos Burt and Walter L. Turner shall expire on the first Monday in December, 1974. At the time of the primary in 1974, and every four years thereafter, three members of the Halifax County Board of Education shall be elected to fill the three terms expiring in each of those years.

In each election, candidates in the number of positions to be filled who receive the highest number of votes shall be declared duly elected.

Sec. 4.  In accordance with G.S. 115-22, all persons who shall be elected members of the Halifax County Board of Education must qualify by taking the oath of office on or before the first Monday in December next succeeding their election for a term of four years.

Sec. 5.  Except as modified by this act, the election procedures for the Halifax County Board of Education shall be the same as the election procedures for county boards of education provided in Article 5, Chapter 115, of the North Carolina General Statutes, as amended.

Sec. 6.  Chapter 608 of the Session Laws of 1967 relating to the terms of office of members of the Halifax County Board of Education is hereby repealed.  All other laws and clauses of laws in conflict with this act are hereby repealed.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 8th day of June, 1971.