NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1963 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 324

HOUSE BILL 547

 

 

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

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

 

Section 1. The Board of Education of McDowell County shall consist of six members, and the present members of said board of education shall continue to hold their offices until their terms of office expire and their successors are nominated and elected as hereinafter provided.

Sec. 2. At the primary and general election to be held for county officers in McDowell County in the year 1964, there shall be nominated and elected two members of the board of education for said county for terms of office of six (6) years each. At the primary and general election to be held for county officers in McDowell County in the year 1966, there shall be nominated and elected two members of the Board of Education for McDowell County for terms of office of six (6) years each. At the primary and general election to be held for county officers in McDowell County for the year 1968, there shall be nominated and elected two members of the County Board of Education for McDowell County for terms of office of six (6) years each. Thereafter, and as the terms of office expire, there shall biennially be nominated and elected two members of the Board of Education for McDowell County with terms of office of six (6) years each. The members of said board of education so nominated and elected shall be inducted into and take the oath of office on the first Monday of December in the year in which said members are nominated and elected.

Sec. 3. All persons desiring to be nominated for membership on said board of education shall be nominated by the political party of McDowell County of such persons' party affiliation, and the nomination and election of said members shall be held and conducted under the laws and regulations pertaining to the nomination and election of county officers and as provided by Chapter 163 of the General Statutes, as amended. Each person seeking to be nominated shall file notice of candidacy with the Board of Elections of McDowell County as provided by law and shall pay a filing fee of ten dollars ($10.00). In each primary the two persons receiving the highest number of votes shall be declared to be nominated, and there shall be no second primary. All persons seeking to be nominated in the primary shall be voted on at large by the electors of McDowell County and if in any primary no more than two candidates for any political party shall file notice of candidacy, then such two persons shall be the nominees for such political party, and as to such party and for such candidates no primary election shall be necessary. All persons elected as members of the Board of Education of McDowell County shall serve until their successors are duly elected and qualified.

Sec. 4. Any vacancy occurring on the Board of Education of McDowell County by death, resignation or otherwise shall for the remainder of the unexpired term be filled by the remaining members of said board of education. If a person who has been nominated as a candidate dies or removes himself, or for any other reason cannot be a candidate in the general election, a candidate shall be appointed by the executive committee of the political party of which the dead or disqualified candidate was a member.

Sec. 5. All laws and clauses of laws in conflict with the provisions of this Act are hereby repealed.

Sec. 6. 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 1st day of May, 1963.