NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1959 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 550

HOUSE BILL 645

 

 

AN ACT REWRITING SECTION 4, CHAPTER 403, PUBLIC LAWS OF 1891, SO AS TO PROVIDE FOR THE ELECTION AND TERM OF OFFICE OF THE MEMBERS OF THE SHELBY CITY BOARD OF EDUCATION.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

 

Section 1. That Section 4 of Chapter 403, Public Laws of 1891, as rewritten by Chapter 155, Private Laws of 1913, be and the same is hereby again rewritten to read as follows:

"Sec. 4. That the Shelby City Board of Education shall be composed of five members, one for and from each of the four wards of the City of Shelby and one from the administrative unit at large, and members of said Board of Education shall be elected at the same time and in the same manner as the Mayor and Board of Aldermen of the City of Shelby are elected and shall qualify on the first day of July following their election and shall hold office for a term of four years and until their successors shall be duly elected and qualified: Provided that at the municipal election to be held in May, 1961, the three candidates for membership on said Board of Education receiving the highest number of votes shall be elected for terms of four years each and the two members elected and receiving the next highest number of votes shall each be elected for terms of two years each. In case of a tie between two candidates, the result shall be determined by lot. The successors to each member elected shall serve for terms of four years each. In case of a vacancy in the membership of said board caused by death, resignation or any other cause, the remaining members of said board shall fill the vacancy for the remainder of the unexpired term or until the next municipal election by the appointment of a member residing in the ward of the person causing the vacancy or if the person causing the vacancy represented the administrative unit at large, such vacancy shall be filled in like manner without regard to the residence of the appointee within the city administrative unit."

Sec. 2. That the terms of office of the members of the Shelby City Board of Education elected in 1959 shall expire on July 1, 1961.

Sec. 3. All laws and clauses of laws in conflict with the provisions of this Act are hereby repealed.

Sec. 4. This Act shall be in full force and effect from and after July 1, 1959.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 19th day of May, 1959.