NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1973 SESSION

CHAPTER 707

HOUSE BILL 1200

AN ACT TO PROVIDE FOR THE NOMINATION AND ELECTION OF THE MEMBERS OF THE HOKE COUNTY BOARD OF EDUCATION.

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

Section 1. The Hoke County Board of Education shall consist of five members, to be elected by the voters of the county on a non-partisan basis as herein provided, who shall serve for a term of four years. The term of office of each member shall begin on the first Monday in December, next succeeding his election, and shall serve until a successor has been elected and qualified; provided, that the present members of the Hoke County Board of Education shall continue to hold their offices until the first Monday in December, 1974, or until their successors are elected and qualified.

Sec. 2. At the regular general county election held for Hoke County in 1974, there shall be elected five members of the Hoke County Board of Education. The three candidates receiving the highest number of votes in said election shall be elected for terms of four years and the two members receiving the next highest number of votes shall be elected for terms of two years. Thereafter, biennially there shall be elected members of the Hoke County Board of Education to succeed the members whose terms next expire.

Sec. 3. The election for members of the Hoke County Board of Education shall be conducted as set forth in Section 2 herein, and at said election a separate ballot entitled "School Board" shall be used and such ballots shall be distributed to all qualified voters desiring to vote in said election without regard to the political affiliation of said voters; provided, nothing herein shall be construed to exclude an independent or person not affiliated with either of the major parties from voting in said election.

Sec. 4. All vacancies in the membership of the Hoke County Board of Education by death, resignation, or other causes shall be filled by appointment by the remaining members of the Board, of such a person to serve until the next election of members of such Board, at which time the remaining unexpired term of the office in which the vacancy occurs shall be filled by election.

Sec. 5. Chapter 228 of the Session Laws of 1969 is repealed.

Sec. 6. This act shall become effective upon ratification.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 23rd day of May, 1973.