NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1963 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 261

SENATE BILL 278

 

 

AN ACT TO REWRITE CHAPTER 550 OF THE SESSION LAWS OF 1959, RELATING TO THE ELECTION AND TERMS OF OFFICE OF THE MEMBERS OF THE SHELBY CITY BOARD OF EDUCATION.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

 

Section 1. Section 4 of Chapter 403 of the Public Laws of 1891, as rewritten by Chapter 155 of the Private Laws of 1913, and is rewritten by Chapter 550 of the Session Laws of 1959, is again hereby amended and rewritten so that the same shall hereafter read as follows:

"Sec. 4. The Shelby City Board of Education shall be composed of five (5) members, all of the said members to be elected 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 (4) years and until their successors shall be duly elected and qualified: Provided that the three (3) candidates on the present board of education that were elected for terms of four (4) years in the May election of 1961 shall continue to hold their offices until their four-year term has been completed and their successors duly elected and qualified; and provided further that at the municipal election to be held in May 1963 two (2) members shall be elected for terms of four (4) years each and that thereafter biennially at the municipal election two (2) or three (3) members shall be elected depending on the expiring terms of the members of the board at that time; and the successors to each member elected shall serve for terms of four (4) years each, or until their successors are duly elected and qualified. The City of Shelby, North Carolina, shall establish a voting place in the area of the Shelby City Administrative unit adjoining the city limits and lying North of U. S. Highway 74 By-Pass, and a voting place in the area that adjoins the city limits of Shelby and lying South of U. S. Highway 74 By-Pass; that the City Board of Shelby shall provide for a new registration for all voters outside the corporate limits for the election of the members of the school board for the 1963 election; and the said board shall supervise said election the same as heretofore. 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."

Sec. 2. All laws and clauses of laws in conflict with this Act are hereby repealed.

Sec. 3. This Act shall be in full force and effect from and after its ratification.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 23rd day of April, 1963.