GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA
SESSION 2013
SESSION LAW 2013-220
HOUSE BILL 490
AN ACT to change the manner of election for the lee county board of education and for the city of sanford to partisan.
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
SECTION 1. Chapter 852, Session Laws of 1973, as amended by Chapter 204 of the Session Laws of 1977 and Chapter 307 of the 1989 Session Laws, reads as rewritten:
"Section 1. The Lee
County Board of Education shall consist of seven members, to be elected by the
voters of the county on a nonpartisan basis as herein provided, partisan
basis, who shall serve for a term of four years. The term of office of each
member shall begin at the first regular meeting in July December in
the year of his election, and each member shall serve until a successor has
been elected and qualified.
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"Section 3. At the
primary election for county officers held for Lee County in 1974, there shall
be elected three members of the Lee County Board of Education. At the primary
election for county officers held in Lee County in 1976, there shall be elected
four members of the Sanford-Lee County Board of Education. At the time
for election of county officers in Lee County in 2014, there shall be elected
three members of the Lee County Board of Education. At the time for election of
county officers in Lee County in 2016, there shall be elected four members of
the Lee County Board of Education. Thereafter, biennially there shall be
elected members of the Lee County Board of Education to succeed the members
whose terms next expire."
SECTION 2. G.S. 115C-37.1(d) reads as rewritten:
"(d) This section shall apply only in the following counties: Alleghany, Brunswick, Graham, Lee, New Hanover, Vance, and Washington."
SECTION 3.(a) The Charter of the City of Sanford, being Chapter 650 of the 1967 Session Laws, as amended by Chapter 541 of the Session Laws of 1971, Chapter 403 of the Session Laws of 1987, and S.L. 1997-245, is amended by adding a new section to read:
"Sec. 4.2. Manner of Election. The Mayor and City Council are elected on a partisan basis in accordance with Article 24 of Chapter 163 of the General Statutes."
SECTION 3.(b) If approval of this section is required under Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, this section is effective January 1, 2014.
SECTION 4. This act is effective when it becomes law.
In the General Assembly read three times and ratified this the 27th day of June, 2013.
s/ Daniel J. Forest
President of the Senate
s/ Thom Tillis
Speaker of the House of Representatives