GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA
SESSION 2011
HOUSE BILL 498
RATIFIED BILL
AN ACT to allow the presiding officer of the wake county board of education to vote in all cases.
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
SECTION 1. Section 9 of Chapter 717 of the 1975 Session Laws reads as rewritten:
"Sec. 9. The Wake
County Board of Education, acting jointly and by a majority vote of all members
present, shall elect a chairman chair to preside at meetings and
a vice-chairman vice-chair to preside at meetings in the
absence of the chairman; and the chairman and vice-chairman chair;
and the chair and vice-chair shall have a vote on all matters considered by
the Wake County Board of Education, but the presiding officer shall have no
authority to vote except to break a tie. Education. All vacancies
occurring in the membership of the Wake County Board of Education by reason of
death, resignation, removal of residence from the district from which elected,
or for any cause whatsoever, shall be filled by the remaining members of said
board by appointing a member from the voting district creating the vacancy for
the unexpired term. The Wake County Board of Education shall have all power and
authority as a Board of Education as herein conferred and as are conferred by
the General Statutes of North Carolina on boards of education in general."
SECTION 2. This act becomes effective December 1, 2011.
In the General Assembly read three times and ratified this the 15th day of June, 2011.
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Walter H. Dalton
President of the Senate
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Thom Tillis
Speaker of the House of Representatives