NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1973 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 349

HOUSE BILL 761

 

AN ACT TO PROVIDE FOR THE NOMINATION AND ELECTION OF THE JONES COUNTY BOARD OF EDUCATION IN PARTISAN ELECTIONS.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

 

Section 1. The Board of Education of Jones County shall consist of five members who shall be nominated and elected by the voters of the county at large. The members shall be elected for four-year staggered terms so as nearly equal to one half as possible shall expire every two years.

Sec. 2. Beginning with the partisan primary and election for county officers to be held in 1974, and thereafter, there shall be nominated and elected members of the county board of education to take the place of the members whose terms next expire. Members elected in 1974, and thereafter, shall take office and qualify as provided in G.S. 115-22.

Sec. 3. Article 5 of Chapter 115 of the General Statutes shall be applicable to the Jones County Board of Election except those provisions thereof which are in conflict with this act.

Sec. 4. This act shall become effective July 1, 1973.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 7th day of May, 1973.